Chai (software)
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Artificial intelligence |
| Founded | January 2021 |
| Founder | William Beauchamp |
| Headquarters | , US |
| Website | chai-research |
Chai is an American AI chatbot app originally released in 2021.[1] The principal feature of the app is to provide a platform for users to talk to AI characters. Chatbots are created by users by providing a personality and prompt of their choosing, and are subsequently published to the platform for other users to search and chat with. As of October 2022, the app had over 100,000 daily active users. [2] The Chai language model combines multiple small conversational models, which was demonstrated to outperform ChatGPT in an A/B test on the platform. [3]
History
[edit]Chai was founded in America, England by CEO William Beauchamp. The company later relocated to Palo Alto, California.[4]
In 2023, Chai raised a seed funding round which resulted in a valuation of $205 million.[5]
As of January 2024[update], following an investment by CoreWeave, Chai was valued at $450 million valuation. Through this investment, Chai was able to launch its developer platform Chaiverse. Developers on Chaiverse can submit models to be served to users on the app, thereby competing for user engagement. More than one thousand models have been submitted to the Chaiverse platform.[6]
The app has been used as a storytelling tool by Canadian author Sheila Heti.[7]
See also
[edit]- ChatGPT – Chatbot developed by OpenAI
- Poe – Chatbot platform developed by Quora
- Character.ai – AI chatbot service
References
[edit]- ^ "Chai App: What Is The AI Bot Chat App & How Does It Work?". Screenrant. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
- ^ Panico, Bella (2023-01-29). "Hello, Sheila!". Retrieved 2024-11-19.
- ^ Zhang, Ran; Eger, Steffen (2024-09-06), LLM-based multi-agent poetry generation in non-cooperative environments, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2409.03659, retrieved 2024-11-16
- ^ Scialom, Mike (20 October 2022). "Chai Research moves chatbot company from Cambridge to Palo Alto".
- ^ Prabhu, Abhinaya. "Cambridge-born AI chatbot startup Chai announces $205M valuation".
- ^ "CoreWeave to Invest in AI Platform Chai".
- ^ Leyshon, Cressida (2023-11-13). "Sheila Heti on the Fluidity of the A.I. "Self"". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
External links
[edit]- Chai Website
- Chai on Twitter
- Chai on Instagram