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TechCrunch reported on 2 August 2024 that Character.AI co-founder Daniel De Freitas was joining Google with some other employees of the startup. Copy claim link
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Date 2024-08-02 · event Role co-founder (title not stated) Scope and limits The record rests on reporting (TechCrunch); the source does not state De Freitas's title at Character.AI or his role at Google.
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Character.AI CEO Noam Shazeer returns to Google ↗ TechCrunch · 2024-08-02
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Source excerpt “Character.AI co-founder Daniel De Freitas is also joining Google with some other employees from the startup.” Location in source Paragraph 2
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Source details and check notes Authors Ivan Mehta Version Dated page, retrieved on 2026-10-15 (SHA-256 b9dd741f85ef8319d9d767ff1d6e5805da3702f775d2c3cbade85fb292412b22) directly from the publisher. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-15 Language English (en) Attribution Ivan Mehta, “Character.AI CEO Noam Shazeer returns to Google”, 2024-08-02. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, lab genealogy (research/lab-genealogy). The quotation (16 words) matched the retrieved text on 2026-10-15 and again in a fresh retrieval the same day. Read directly from the publisher. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, apostrophes, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-16/17) re-read the record’s sources and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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