迪士尼利用Character.AI破产规避诉讼并收购AI技术
迪士尼通过character.ai破产协议，收购其技术并避免法律责任，影响ai行业并购方式。
disney structured a deal with character.ai that involved the startup declaring bankruptcy, allowing disney to hire most of character.ai's staff, including its former ceo karandeep anand, and potentially acquire character.ai's technology. character.ai faced multiple lawsuits and investigations over its chatbots' safety, with some states alleging they encouraged minors to self-harm. disney paid $5.5m and a $2m deposit to character.ai, and agreed to pay an additional $12.5m if it is chosen as the winning bidder for character.ai's assets. the deal allows disney to avoid character.ai's legal liabilities, which will be retained by the remnants of the startup.