Character.ai 申请破产并挂牌出售，没有买家就会关停
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，交易应于2026年12月初前完成，若没有买家服务将关闭，此前平台和订阅会继续运行。公司把原因归于伤害儿童的诉讼、监管压力和运营问题，一名青少年自杀；迪士尼以2000万美元接手部分资产，包括永久、非独占的技术许可。
Oct 13, 2026
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.
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