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James Groeneveld

12/18/24

@ LangChain

We launched Character.AI about a month before ChatGPT came out in October 2022, and we scaled from 300 generations per second to over 30,000 in about 18 months.

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How We Built It: Character.AI - Fireside Chat with Harrison Chase & James Groeneveld

@ LangChain

How We Built It: Character.AI - Fireside Chat with Harrison Chase & James Groeneveld

12/18/24

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a16z Cast

03/26/25

@ a16z

Midjourney and Character AI were released before ChatGPT, creating early niche communities of adopters that contributed to the rise of AI awareness leading up to ChatGPT's popularity.

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Sam Altman

04/12/25

@ TED

The growth of ChatGPT has been unprecedented, with 500 million weekly active users, and it's growing rapidly.

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Severin Hacker

05/19/25

@ 20VC with Harry Stebbings

We were one of the launch partners of OpenAI when they first launched ChatGPT-4, and we immediately recognized its potential to help our mission.

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Geoffrey Hinton

01/18/25

@ Curt Jaimungal

In early 2023, I realized AI development was outpacing our ability to control it, influenced by the impressive capabilities of ChatGPT and my work on analog computation at Google.

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Christopher O'Donnell

04/01/25

@ Sequoia Capital

I started Day.ai shortly after the ChatGPT moment because it felt like the right time to capture the imagination and build something impactful.

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James Groeneveld

12/18/24

@ LangChain

The most significant difference in scaling Character.AI compared to traditional applications is the volume of data processed per second, which is an order of magnitude higher.

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Paul Buchheit

08/10/24

@ Y Combinator

The launch of ChatGPT has significantly raised public awareness about AI, making it accessible beyond just large corporations.

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Sam Altman

05/12/25

@ Sequoia Capital

By the time ChatGPT 3.5 was released, we identified multiple categories where businesses could thrive using the API, driven by the demand for conversational AI.

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Waseem Alshikh

03/27/25

@ LangChain

Since the release of ChatGPT, we've seen a shift in enterprise interest from how generative AI works to how it can solve specific business problems.