No need to preach the potential of conversational AI now that ChatGPT has taken the world by storm (congrats OpenAI)! Here's what we've been up to at Character. Some highlights👇
Character.AI @character_ai
5 Dec 2022
Introducing Character What if you could create your own AI, and it was always available to help you with anything? Imagine everything it could do for you… blog.character.ai/introducin…
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First, some metrics! Our beta generates more than 1 billion words per day. Our users have created more than 350 thousand Characters.

Dec 5, 2022 · 9:41 PM UTC

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Many have confidently assumed we use the OpenAI API. Some even recently asked if we somehow had early access to ChatGPT through an API… We trained/aligned our models from scratch and own the stack end-to-end.
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This lets us perform many training, serving, ML optimizations and align our product, engineering and research roadmaps more effectively.
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For example, we wrote our own high-performance distributed transformer implementation and were able to hit 250 TFLOPs/s on A100s, or ~80% model flops utilization. For comparison, MFU is reported at 54% for Megatron-LM and similar for MosaicML
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Replying to @IrwanBello
Hello, I am not sure if you are a dev or staff, but please do respond to my emails.. I have also reached out to character ai for help and support on many other platforms.. I have been experiencing a bug for over a week, and its been three days, since I reported. Still no response