Research Scientist / Google DeepMind
Daniel De Freitas is a prominent AI researcher and entrepreneur, currently serving as a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. He is the co-founder and former President of Character.AI, a popular conversational AI platform. Prior to Character.AI, he was a key figure at Google, where he started and led the development of the groundbreaking conversational AI models Meena and LaMDA at Google Brain.
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CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition
CS224d: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing
CS229: Machine Learning
Daniel De Freitas and Noam Shazeer, co-founders of Character.AI, rejoined Google's AI unit DeepMind, two years after leaving their engineering roles to launch the startup. This move was part of a licensing agreement for Character.AI's technology.
ViewMr. Shazeer and Mr. De Freitas, who co-founded Character.AI and raised nearly $200 million, announced their return to Google, highlighting a trend of AI founders jumping ship for Big Tech.
ViewThe article discusses the return of Google defectors Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas to Google DeepMind, leaving Character.AI, the AGI company they co-founded in 2021, in a reported $2.5 billion deal.
ViewThe report details how Google engineers, including Daniel De Freitas, had developed a ChatGPT-like AI (Meena/LaMDA) years ago as a side project while he was working on YouTube-related AI.
ViewDaniel De Freitas possesses deep expertise in the full lifecycle of AI development, from foundational research in conversational models like LaMDA and Meena to the commercial scaling of consumer-facing AI products at Character.AI. His technical skills span core software engineering, large-scale machine learning, and natural language processing.
Recognized for high potential and leadership capabilities within Microsoft's development organization.
Awarded for the best graduation engineering project for the creation of an autonomous delivery robot.
