Character.AI gets new AI powered image to video generator, community feed and more
Character.AI, a platform that allows users to chat and engage in conversations with AI-generated role-playing characters, is getting a bunch of new features. Purchased by Google in August last year, the company said it is 'expanding into a multi-modal world and unlocking even more ways for Creators to build immersive narratives and craft richer, more dynamic experiences.'
In a blog post, Character.AI listed down some of these features, which include AvatarFX, a video generation model, and Scenes and Streams. While AvatarFX has already been available to subscribers for a monthly fee, the functionality is now open to all, allowing them to create five videos per day.
To give you a quick recap, AvatarFX is an AI-powered image-to-video generator that brings your characters to life. Using this, users can upload any photo and make it sing, speak and engage with just the click of a button. This is really handy if you are a digital creator who wants to make introductory videos for Characters or generate dynamic content to get more followers. It is currently limited to the web version of the service, but will soon be available on mobile devices.
For creators, Characters.AI also introduced 'Scenes', a new tool that enables 'immersive storytelling experiences', where characters created by users can be inserted into 'interactive, pre-populated storylines.' Later this year, Character.AI says it will introduce new tools that allow creators to build and publish their very own scenes.
The company also introduced a new feature called 'Streams'. The new tool 'puts users in the director's seat', helping them make 'dynamic moments' between any two Characters by simply choosing a topic of their choice and hitting play. Character.AI says both Streams and Scenes can be shared with others on its new social feed and will be available on the movie version of the app.
Character.AI also redesigned its user profile page, which now lets you showcase your creativity and AI-generated Characters. Some of the new features include a smarter way to organise things and more customisation options that help you connect to your audience.
If you want to animate Characters created on the platform, the new Imagine Animated Chats feature lets you do just that. You can also make two Characters interface with one another and share them either on the Character.AI feed or on other platforms. However, it is currently limited to c.ai+ subscribers on the mobile app.
Talking of the new community feed, Character.AI says the social aspect of its platform connects all of the above features, meaning users will be able to share Characters, Scenes and Streams as well as their own content on the mobile app.
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