By leveraging Google Cloud’s generative AI and large language models (LLMs) infrastructure, the conversational AI platform is expected to fulfil the requirements of its rapidly growing community of creators
Google Cloud partners with Character.AI to build conversational AI. (Credit: David Shay/Wikimedia Commons)
Character.AI has selected Google Cloud as its preferred cloud infrastructure to develop and train artificial intelligence (AI) models with advanced reasoning and greater accuracy.
By leveraging Google Cloud’s generative AI and large language models (LLMs) infrastructure, the conversational AI platform is expected to fulfil the requirements of its rapidly growing community of creators.
Character.AI is expected to integrate its AI capabilities with those of Google Cloud to improve the customer experience.
Character.AI CEO Noam Shazeer said: “We’ve recognised the power and strength of Google Cloud’s technology from day one.
“As we continue our growth trajectory, working with Google Cloud’s AI technologies was the obvious choice, allowing us to rapidly expand our compute abilities so we can deliver new features and capabilities to millions of users.”
As part of the collaboration, Character.AI will leverage Google Cloud’s Tensor Processor Units (TPUs) to train and infer LLMs more rapidly and effectively.
With Google Cloud TPUs, the conversational AI platform is anticipated to benefit from the same reliable, secure, and highly scalable infrastructure that drives Google Search, YouTube, and other Google services.
Besides, Character.AI expects to engage Google Cloud’s new A3 VMs operating on Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs.
This combination is said to allow customers to overcome any AI workload with speed and flexibility.
The platform is also utilising Google Cloud’s PostgreSQL, a compatible database, and AlloyDB for enhanced operational uptime, speed, and flexibility.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said: “We’re offering Google Cloud’s industry-leading infrastructure, Google foundation models and AI tooling to companies across industries so they can build, train and deploy the future of AI creatively, reliably and at scale.
“Character.AI’s cutting-edge conversational AI technology is creating entirely new opportunities to transform how we interact with AI systems, and we are thrilled to be their partner as they continue to scale their vision.”
In March 2023, Character.AI raised $150m in a Series A funding round led by US-based venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and at a valuation of $1bn.