The 'AI Rookie” that capital is enthusiastic about is here! Character.AI app was installed by more than 1.7 million users within one week of its launch

With the AI ​​craze, the ChatGPT mobile terminal has been downloaded more than 500,000 times in the first six days. On the other hand, a "rookie" AI application seems to be making its debut with even greater momentum.

According to technology media TechCrunch reported on Thursday, Character.AI, a chatbot application based on LLM (Large Language Model), claimed to have attracted more than 1.7 million user installations in less than a week after being launched. The media compared the download data provided by third-party data providers data.ai and Character.AI and found that the number provided by the former was larger.

In this program, users can create personalized robot characters and chat with other robots that have already been created.

Character.AI was created in 2022 by Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas. They previously led a research team at Google that built LaMDA (Language Model Dialogue Application) - a language model that helps enhance the AI ​​conversational experience.

Character.AI has won the favor of A16Z, a well-known American venture capital institution. In March this year, it completed a US$150 million financing led by A16z, which also brought its valuation to US$1 billion.

On May 23, Character.AI mobile terminal officially launched on global iOS and Android systems, especially performing strongly on Google Play. Within 48 hours of its release, it was installed more than 700,000 times on Android phones, ahead of top entertainment apps such as Netflix, Disney and Prime Video.

Character.AI confirmed to TechCrunch that the app’s installs are still increasing strongly in the days following its release, as it enters large Android markets such as Indonesia, the Philippines, and Brazil. The United States is also a major market for Android downloads, it said.

The popularity of the mobile terminal is partly due to the outstanding performance of the web terminal. Character.AI said that before the release of the mobile version, the Character.AI web page received more than 200 million visits per month, and the average user visit time reached 29 minutes. The company said this number exceeded ChatGPT by 300%.

According to Character.AI, users will quickly become immersed in it after using it once. For example, after users send their first message to a character, their engagement time on the platform increases to more than 2 hours on average. To date, users have created more than 10 million chatbot characters.

However, Character.AI’s current popularity is showing a cooling trend. As of now, the company's iOS app ranks 13th in the entertainment category on the U.S. App Store. The app ranked fourth overall on iOS in the United States for the first two days, but then dropped to 89th. data.ai told TechCrunch that on Android in the U.S., it reached No. 5 on May 27, but has dropped to No. 27 as of now.

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