Character.ai 申请破产并挂牌出售，无买家将关停服务
Character.ai will shut down if no buyer emerges, capping a fall from $2.7 billion Google deal to bankruptcy
Character.ai 已申请破产并挂牌出售，交易预计在 2026 年 12 月初完成，若无买家则服务关停，平台和订阅在此之前继续运行。公司将原因归于涉及儿童伤害的诉讼、监管压力和运营问题，其中一名青少年自杀。Disney 以 2000 万美元收购部分资产，包括一项永久非独占技术许可，上月随前 CEO Karandeep Singh Anand 加入 Disney 的前员工将协助过渡。Google 曾在 2024 年以 27 亿美元交易带回联合创始人 Noam Shazeer，他随后于 2026 年离开并加入 OpenAI。
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从 27 亿美元人才收购到破产出售，这条时间线呈现了 Character.ai 与 Google、OpenAI 之间的人才与资产流向。
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AI chat platform Character.ai has filed for bankruptcy and is up for sale. The deal should close by early December 2026. No buyer means the service shuts down. The platform and subscriptions keep running until then. Character.ai blames lawsuits over harm to children, regulatory pressure, and operational problems. One teenager took his own life.
Disney is picking up some assets for $20 million, including a perpetual, non-exclusive technology license. Former Character.ai employees who moved to Disney last month with ex-CEO Karandeep Singh Anand will help manage the transition.
Google closed a $2.7 billion deal in 2024 partly to bring back co-founder Noam Shazeer, who co-authored Google's Transformer paper, the foundation of every major AI model. He and co-founder Daniel De Freitas were supposed to improve Google's reasoning models. By 2026, Shazeer had already left for OpenAI , reportedly over Google's compute bureaucracy, according to the Wall Street Journal .