Former Meta VP Karandeep Anand takes on CEO role at Character. ai
Google-backed AI chatbot service Character. ai has appointed Karandeep Anand as its next chief executive officer on Friday.Prior to this, he was vice president and head of business products at Meta . He has also held executive roles at Microsoft.In the new role, Anand will focus on advancing Character. ai's long term strategy to enhance multimodal-AI technology and expand the user base.Anand has been a board advisor to Character. ai for the last nine months. In a note, he laid out plans for the company over the next 60 days. These plans include working on refining open source models in an attempt to improve memory and overall model quality. He also aims to improve search and discoverability features to help users navigate better.In parallel, Anand hinted at expanding Character. ai's creative toolkit to help creators design richer, immersive characters, with audio and video capabilities.To give users better control, he said he is going to make the content filters less overbearing to ease out restrictions. Additionally, he aims to roll out 'Archive' option to allow users to hide or archive characters if they wish to.The company also announced Dominic Perella as chief legal officer and senior vice president (SVP) of global affairs.Character. ai uses deep learning models similar to GPT-type models, offering conversational AI characters while also allowing character creation. However, it does not support generating images or code, making it a solely text-based model.
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