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Character AI

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Character AI develops interactive AI characters for entertainment and educational purposes.

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latest thesis
Character AI adopts cutting-edge VLM features at hundreds of GPUs scale▾

Character AI deployed VLM's speculative decoding feature to hundreds of GPUs while it was still a single unmerged pull request, demonstrating extreme velocity of open source adoption by frontier AI companies.

simon moT3a16z2026-01-22
confidence 58 / 100impact Medium
key themes
  • AI Infrastructure100%
  • Open Source AI100%
  • Semiconductors100%

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83 / 100
  • •Character AI adopts cutting-edge VLM features at hundreds of GPUs scale

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mentions · 1

a16zInferact: Building the Infrastructure That Runs Modern AI1 mentions · 1▲ 0▼ 0○ · 8 months ago
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