Disney Hired Bankrupt Character.ai Engineers, Not Its Characters
Forbes
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Disney has acquired the engineering team behind Character.ai, a bankrupt AI platform with 12 million users, and is bidding $20 million for its technology. The acquisition focuses on the talent and technology, not the platform's existing characters.
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