Character.Ai, the AI Chatbot provider supported by Google with tens of millions of monthly active users, announced On Friday that Karandeep Anand, a former Vice President of Meta’s business products, participates in the company as CEO.
Earlier a consultant to the Board of Directors of the character.Ai, Anand enters the role of CEO at a central moment for the Chatbot provider, as the company is trying to develop its platform at the same time while combating concerns about children’s safety. In recent months, the character.
Anand comes to character.Ai with experience of advertising products that have arrived by billions of users in META applications. Previously, ANAND served as head of Microsoft’s products management, overseeing users’ experience on the company’s cloud platform, Azure. More recently, Anand has served as president of Fintech Startup Brex.
Anand takes the character. Over 10 months after Google’s hiring away from co -founder and chief executive, Noam Shazeer, who had previously led the AI teams to the Mountain View giant. At that time, Google also signed a non -exclusive agreement on the use of character technology.
The character. Google Agreement caused Federal regulators to investigate companies’ relationship over the antitrust concerns. It is one of the many reversal deals in the AI start -up area that has received regulatory control, along with Microsoft’s agreement with Qutection.ai.
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In a blog post, Anand said one of his first priorities would make the “less too much” security filters. The new CEO noted that the company is deeply interested in user security, but this is very often, “the application filters things that are absolutely real estate”.
Anand also said he plans to improve the quality of AI models on the character platform, to innovate around the characteristics of memory and increase transparency of decision -making. He says that many of these features come in the next 60 days.
Chatbots that are purely designed for entertainment, which the character. In 2024, 66% of the company’s users were between 18 and 24 years and 72% of company users were women, according to data from Sensor.
