Daniel De Freitas

Founder

Former Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google who supervised the LaMDA project. Co-founded Character.AI in November 2021 and returned to Google alongside Noam Shazeer in the August 2024 licensing deal.

Overview

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Founder

Companies

1 company
Character.AI $193M
Private Founder

Character.AI is a generative AI chatbot platform that lets users create and interact with customizable AI characters. Founded by former Google engineers who co-authored the Transformer paper and led the LaMDA project, the platform has over 20 million monthly active users.

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