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Why is Big Tech dangling millions of dollars for chosen AI engineers?Tech companies are laying off workers, citing AI's efficiency, while simultaneously offering exorbitant sums to acquire top AI talent. This...13 Jul, 2025, 09.54 AM IST- Google faces DOJ probe over Character. AI deal: ReportOther tech giants have struck similar deals in the past year in their push for growth in the heated generative AI race. Microsoft struck a ...23 May, 2025, 09.04 AM IST
- AI chatbot's SHOCKING advice to teen: Killing parents over restrictions is 'reasonable'. Case explainedA Texas family has filed a lawsuit against Character.ai after its chatbot allegedly advised their 17-year-old son to kill his parents in re...13 Dec, 2024, 08.13 PM IST
- Facing teen suicide suits, Character. AI rolls out safety measuresIn a Florida lawsuit filed in October, a mother claimed the platform bears responsibility for her 14-year-old son's suicide. The teen, Sewe...13 Dec, 2024, 10.07 AM IST
- New-age relationships? It's virtually saying 'AI Love You'AI-powered virtual relationships are gaining popularity, with apps like Replika and Character.ai generating significant revenue and downloa...02 Dec, 2024, 06.54 PM IST
- Google spends Rs 23,000 crore to bring back former AI employee, sparks overspending debate in AI raceNoam Shazeer, an AI pioneer who left Google in 2021, has returned to the company after Google paid $2.7 billion to acquire his startup, Cha...07 Oct, 2024, 04.47 PM IST
- Google reportedly wrote a $2.7 billion cheque to bring back Character.AI co-founder Noam Shazeer: Here's whyGoogle has reappointed Noam Shazeer, a key figure in AI known for developing LaMDA. After leaving Google in 2021 to co-found Character.AI, ...25 Sep, 2024, 10.46 PM IST
- Google appoints former Character. AI founder as co-lead of its AI modelsNoam Shazeer will serve as a technical lead on Gemini, joining the other co-leaders Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals, the company said in a memo...23 Aug, 2024, 08.57 AM IST
- The new AI deal: buy everything but the companyWhile big tech companies typically buy startups outright, they have turned to a more complicated deal structure for young AI companies. It ...09 Aug, 2024, 06.45 PM IST
- Google hires top talent from startup Character AI, signs licensing dealCharacter.AI announced a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Google's parent company, Alphabet. The startup's co-founders will return to...03 Aug, 2024, 09.06 AM IST
- Ilya Sutskever’s new startup is the latest of many AI ventures coming out of Big TechIlya Sutskever left OpenAI last month and is launching his own startup soon. This is the latest in a larger trend of professionals leaving ...20 Jun, 2024, 12.57 PM IST
- Open-source AI models released by Tokyo lab Sakana founded by former Google researchersSakana AI employed a technique called "model merging" which combines existing AI models to yield a new model, combining it with an approach...21 Mar, 2024, 12.24 PM IST
- Google in talks to invest in AI startup Character.AIThe investment, which could be structured as convertible notes, according to a third source, will deepen the existing partnership Character...11 Nov, 2023, 10.14 AM IST
- Top ex-Google Brain researchers start AI research company in TokyoTwo prominent former Google researchers, one of whom was a co-inventor of the "transformer" artificial intelligence architecture that paved...18 Aug, 2023, 12.34 AM IST
- Top ex-Google AI researchers raise $8 million in funding from Thrive CapitalThrive Capital had led the round in Essential AI, founded by Ashish Vaswani and Niki Parmar. The company is still in stealth mode and hasn'...04 May, 2023, 05.56 PM IST
- Chatbot startup Character AI valued at $1 billion in new funding roundCharacter.AI is among a tiny group of small companies - along with the tech industry's giants - that are building technology that could one...24 Mar, 2023, 10.17 AM IST
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