Character.ai 申请破产待售，无人接手将关停
Character.ai will shut down if no buyer emerges, capping a fall from $2.7 billion Google deal to bankruptcy
AI 聊天平台 Character.ai 已申请破产并挂牌出售，交易预计在 2026 年 12 月初完成，若无买家则服务关停，平台和订阅在此之前继续运营。Character.ai 将原因归于儿童伤害相关诉讼、监管压力和运营问题，其中一名青少年自杀。
从 27 亿美元交易到破产出售，这条时间线呈现了 AI 聊天平台在诉讼与监管压力下的商业结局。
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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