Character AI vs Janitor AI vs Poe AI: The Ultimate 2025 Showdown
In June 2025 Character.AI appointed Karandeep Anand as CEO and announced a 60-day action plan to improve memory, relax the safety filter, and add creator tools, while Google licensed Character.AI’s LLM and took a stake, valuing the company at about $2.5–$3 billion. Character.AI launched official iOS and Android apps in 2023, logged 1.7 million installs in its first week, and by late 2023 had over 4.2 million monthly active users in the U.S., with more than 18 million custom characters by 2025. Character.AI introduced Group conversations and Scenes between 2023 and 2025, and AvatarFX adds short animated avatar reactions to