Comment by moralestapia
1 year ago
>In a big move, Character.AI co-founder and CEO Noam Shazeer [...]
It's like those rich guy/poor guy jokes.
Poor guy leaves his job, tries bootstrap its own company and fails, comes back to its old job. "What a loser".
Rich guy leaves his job, gets 150M to start a company in a blue ocean with a significant competitive advantage over 99.99% of humans alive. Still manages to fail and comes back to its old job. "What a bold move!"
> gets 150M to start a company
Oh there is a place where rich guys can "get" $150M, but poor guys couldn't.
I think the rank and file employees will keep vesting at the 2.5 bn valuation for the next two years, according to The Information
At this point that valuation is almost certainly a mirage.