CoreWeave’s Cloud will handle every message sent on the social AI platform
Those in the know say we are just at the beginning of the AI revolution—and that it is hard to predict what innovations will emerge. But the race is on, and the social AI platform Chai feels they are right in the mix to succeed.
Chai is one of the first large-scale AI language model competitions—meaning that it allows competitors to submit language models and compete for user engagement on Chai’s entertainment app. Chai currently offers $1 million in cash prizes. Those who submit a model are compared against other teams, providing a community-based evaluation method, creating an accelerating community of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).
Chai now touts its 4M+ active users, a proprietary dataset of over 4 billion user-bot messages and 100M+ chats this most recent month.
The two plus year old startup founded by William Beauchamp in 2021 just announced that CoreWeave, the leading specialized GPU cloud provider, is investing in Chai. This brings total capital invested to date to $10 million, giving Chai a $450 million valuation.
In its blog last week, the Chai team shares insight about their model and the driving force behind Chat AI—it is data. As they explained, the success of Chat AI is tied to ongoing access to large amounts of data which feeds the Large Language Models (LLMs) necessary to “produce the best, and most lifelike outcomes”. The blog goes on to say that “whoever best crowdsources the collection of data and feedback to their systems will win the AI war”.
Chai’s strategy is to advance its data collection via crowdsourcing, using competitions among a cultivated community of developers who produce small-size models that can be deployed on Chai’s platform. Chai creates, optimizes and continually trains its own language models on its own propriety chat message dataset—in the end they will have “the most engaging and entertaining models around”.
Chai now touts that their latest model surpasses OpenAI ChatGPT’s performance when measured by session screen-time. Testimonials from current users suggest the platform’s broad appeal that includes help with an eating disorder, lengthy engaging discussions, deriving comfort from chats and the feeling like they are engaging with a real person.
Now having reached 1M+ chat personalities, Chai is on its way to fulfilling its mission of empowering its community to create and experience the world’s most entertaining chat AI.
