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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

7 August 2025

NSFW AI Companions Unfiltered: Janitor AI, Character.AI, and the Chatbot Revolution

Janitor AI was founded by Australian developer Jan Zoltkowski and launched in June 2023, attracting over 1 million users in its first week and roughly 3 million registered users by September 2023. In July 2023 OpenAI issued a cease-and-desist over Janitor AI’s sexual content, prompting a pivot to its own JanitorLLM and a homegrown model release in Beta by late 2023. Janitor AI initially ran on OpenAI GPT-3.5/4 via API, but later developed JanitorLLM, reportedly using an RNN-based approach with hundreds of GPUs to serve millions of queries. By early 2025 the team teased a lore-driven character creation system to

28 July 2025

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