Chai AI

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Chai AI
Company type Private
Industry Artificial intelligence
FoundedJanuary 2021;4 years ago (January 2021)
FounderWilliam Beauchamp
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California
,
US
Website chai-research.com

CHAI AI (also known as CHAI Research) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company that operates a chatbot platform. [1] Founded in 2021 by William Beauchamp, CHAI's chatbots use large language models (LLMs). The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

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History

William Beauchamp began developing the initial prototype for CHAI in 2020 while in Cambridge, United Kingdom. [2] The company launched in 2021 and relocated to Palo Alto in 2022. [3]

CHAI was one of the first companies to deploy an LLM-based consumer chat application, initially using the open-source GPT-J model.[ citation needed ]

In July 2024 authorities in Belgium launched an investigation into the company following reports of a Dutch man dying by suicide following extensive chats on the Chai app. [4]

Technology

The CHAI allows users to create and interact with chatbots based on large language models (LLMs). These chatbots can be published to the platform for other users to interact with. [5]


See also

References

  1. ↑ Panico, Bella (29 January 2023). "Hello, Sheila!". The Yale Herald . Retrieved 11 March 2025.
  2. ↑ "CHAI". Chai. Retrieved 11 March 2025.
  3. ↑ Scialom, Mike (20 October 2022). "Chai Research moves chatbot company from Cambridge to Palo Alto".
  4. ↑ "AI friendships claim to cure loneliness. Some are ending in suicide". The Washington Post . 6 December 2024. Retrieved 11 March 2025.
  5. ↑ "Sheila Heti on the Fluidity of the A.I. "Self"". The New Yorker . 13 November 2023. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
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