{"id":843615,"date":"2024-08-12T11:31:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T06:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=843615"},"modified":"2024-08-12T11:56:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T06:26:28","slug":"the-new-ai-deal-buy-everything-but-the-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/12\/the-new-ai-deal-buy-everything-but-the-company\/","title":{"rendered":"The new AI deal: buy everything but the company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2022, Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas left their jobs developing artificial intelligence at Google. They said the tech giant moved too slowly. So they created Character.AI, a chatbot startup, and raised nearly $200 million.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Shazeer and De Freitas announced that they were returning to Google. They had struck a deal to rejoin its AI research arm, along with roughly 20% of Character.AI&#8217;s employees, and provide their startup&#8217;s technology, they said.<\/p>\n<p>But even though Google was getting all that, it was not buying Character.AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2022, Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas left their jobs developing artificial intelligence at Google. They said the tech giant moved too slowly. So they created Character.AI, a chatbot startup, and raised nearly $200 million. Last week, Shazeer and De Freitas announced that they were returning to Google. They had struck a deal to rejoin its AI research arm, along with roughly 20% of Character.AI&#8217;s employees, and provide their startup&#8217;s technology, they said. But even though Google was getting all that, it was not buying Character.AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=843615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}