Introducing c.ai labs
Chat is just the start. Today we’re launching c.ai labs: a new home for fast, playful experiments in AI entertainment - where we try new formats, new ways to create, and...
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Slonk: Slurm on Kubernetes for ML Research at Character.ai
Today we’re sharing a snapshot of Slonk (Slurm on Kubernetes), the system we use internally to run GPU research clusters at Character.ai.
Although this is not a fully supported open-source project,...
Technical Deep Dive: How DigitalOcean and AMD Delivered a 2x Production Inference Performance Increase for Character.ai
In the post below, our partners at DigitalOcean and AMD break down how we worked across all three teams to achieve 2x production inference performance. Through deep technical collaboration across our three teams,...
Optimizing Large-Scale Pretraining at Character.ai
Before Character.ai shifted its focus toward building on open-source model foundations, the company’s early pretraining team explored a range of techniques to make large-scale transformer training faster and more efficient. That...
Character's Corner: Shelley
For our latest Character’s Corner series, we spoke to Shelley (also known as MightShel), who is a creator based in Mexico who uses Character.ai for creative writing and to learn about...