Character.ai 申請破產待售，無買家將關閉服務
Character.ai will shut down if no buyer emerges, capping a fall from $2.7 billion Google deal to bankruptcy
Character.ai 已申請破產並待售，若未能找到買家，服務將關閉；平台及訂閲服務會維持運作至交易完成，交易預計於 2026 年 12 月初前完成。Disney 將以 $20 million 取得部分資產，其中包括永久、非獨家技術授權；Character.ai 將破產歸因於涉及兒童傷害的訴訟、監管壓力及營運問題。
服務去留取決於能否找到買家；Disney 以 $20 million 取得部分資產，其中包括永久、非獨家技術授權，呈現破產出售期間平台維持營運的安排。
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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