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Assistant · Character.AI
Chat with millions of user-made AI characters.
A consumer platform for creating and chatting with AI personas — fictional characters, helpers, and roleplay companions — across web and mobile. Hosts millions of community-built characters with voice calls and image generation on the paid tier. One of the largest conversational-AI roleplay products by usage.
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Proprietary in-house dialogue models.
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