The Character.AI Team

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...

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...

Inside Kaiju

What made Character.ai's early models so engaging? Before open-source models became the norm, our team built Kaiju - a family of in-house LLMs designed to power millions of fast, expressive conversations every day with an eye towards safety. Our latest blog post looks back at that foundational work....