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   Character.AI files for bankruptcy protection as AI companion sector splinters

   Citing Reuters, 36Kr reports that AI companion platform Character.AI filed for bankruptcy protection in a US court on October 12, entering a court-supervised asset sale; it reportedly has about 12 million users but loses $8–9 million a month, with a minimum bid of just $20 million — less than one-seventh of its Series A — and could shut down if no buyer emerges. Chinese products in the same space also retreated this year: miHoYo's BSide: Olivia Lin (林离) ended online service 29 days after launch, while Anuttacon's AnuNeko and NetEase Cloud Music's 妙时 were shut down. Meanwhile new efforts such as Tencent's 鹅次元, Kuaikan Comics' Livo and Shanghai Jiyou's PROJECT KISMET are betting on interactive stories, persistent virtual worlds and in-game companionship rather than plain chat.

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   Kuaikan's AI-native Livo beta: characters that keep living after you log off

   Kuaikan Comics launched its AI-native product Livo on app stores in early September with an invite-only beta that lasted just ten days, letting users enter AI-generated fictional worlds in first person and interact with characters that have independent personalities and long-term memory. Dialogue, emotion and even story direction are improvised by models on the spot rather than scripted, and the worlds keep running when the app is closed; at the end of the beta users asked whether it could be extended and whether their memories would survive, but metrics such as average daily interaction time and retention have not been released. Livo was greenlit in late February under founder and CEO Chen Anni with a team of about 100, and runs on a three-layer "digital life OS" — a personality and emotion engine, a real-time interactive narrative system and a co-creation platform; Kuaikan rejects the AI-companion and game labels, calling it a self-running AI "bionic world," while characters running offline add continuous compute costs and subscription versus point-card pricing is still undecided.

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