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Character.AI Built a World of Talking Personas. Then the Model Race Cost More Than the Fantasy
The chatbot company found millions of people would spend an hour inside a made-up conversation. Then compute costs, a founder homecoming and a safety reckoning turned one clever app into a test of whether AI can become an entertainment medium.
Alex Ragir
Alex Ragir is the co-founder and co-CEO of Glimmer (formerly Storyhunter), the global content-production platform he grew from zero to a vetted network of more than 40,000 filmmakers and creators across 192 countries. Before building software, he was an investigative journalist and foreign correspondent for Bloomberg News and the Associated Press in Brazil, where he won the 2010 Overseas Press Club award for his reporting on financial crime in Latin America. He works at the seam between journalism, film, and enterprise technology, helping Fortune 500 companies hire and pay creators anywhere in the world.