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Google made a licensing and hiring agreement with ↓ Character.AI
TechCrunch reported on 2 August 2024 that Google was signing a non-exclusive agreement to use Character.AI's technology and that Character.AI's co-founders and some other employees were joining Google. Copy claim link
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Date 2024-08-02 · event Activity stage announced Scope and limits The record rests on reporting: TechCrunch relays Character.AI’s blog post and statements by Google and Shazeer; Character.AI’s own post could not be retrieved (404). Shazeer’s statement quoted by TechCrunch calls it the non-exclusive Google licensing agreement (context evidence). TechCrunch groups the deal with other “reverse acqui-hires”; it does not report an acquisition of Character.AI. Terms and payments are not recorded here.
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Character.AI CEO Noam Shazeer returns to Google ↗ TechCrunch · 2024-08-02
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Source excerpt “Google is also signing a non-exclusive agreement with Character.AI to use its tech.” Location in source Paragraph 3
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Machine-checked · 2026-10-15
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 (13 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. secondary source Supports the claim
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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Machine-checked · 2026-10-15
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. secondary source Context only
Character.AI CEO Noam Shazeer returns to Google ↗ TechCrunch · 2024-08-02
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Paraphrase Shazeer’s statement to TechCrunch refers to the arrangement as the non-exclusive Google licensing agreement.
Location in source Paragraph 4 (statement by Shazeer given to TechCrunch)
How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher
Machine-checked · 2026-10-15
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 paraphrase’s verbatim anchor “Google licensing agreement” 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. The paraphrase is Selekoa’s; only the anchor is the source’s wording. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-16/17) re-read the record’s sources and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. secondary source Context only
Character.AI CEO Noam Shazeer returns to Google ↗ TechCrunch · 2024-08-02
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Paraphrase TechCrunch writes that regulators may scrutinise these reverse acqui-hires closely.
Location in source Paragraph beginning “There is a possibility that different regulatory bodies”
How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher
Machine-checked · 2026-10-15
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 paraphrase’s verbatim anchor “reverse acqui-hires” 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. The paraphrase is Selekoa’s; only the anchor is the source’s wording. 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.
Relation. An announced arrangement under which the subject licenses the object’s technology and hires some of its staff. It is not an acquisition, and the record does not establish which staff moved or the terms.
Date. Date of the report of the announced agreement; signing and effective dates not stated.
Record ID lg-deal-google-character-ai-agreement-2024