Chai Research
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US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +25% in a year
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Team of 10 was 8 · US Form 5500 (plan participants)
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Chai Research is a Palo Alto company founded in 2021 that operates a consumer platform for conversational artificial intelligence characters. It trains its own language models and runs a large feedback loop in which user interactions rank and improve competing models. The company reports millions of active users and positions itself as an independent alternative to the character chat products of larger labs.
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