Google acquires AI avatar startup Alter



It has become clear that Google has acquired AI avatar startup ' Alter ', which has received support from Twitter and others. Google is expected to take advantage of this acquisition to improve and enhance its content.

Google acquires Twitter-backed AI avatar startup Alter for $100 million | TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/27/google-acquires-twitter-backed-ai-avatar-startup-alter-for-100-million-source-says/



According to the news site TechCrunch, Google acquired Alter around August 2022, but neither Google nor Alter announced that fact. However, some of Alter's executives changed their profile affiliation to 'Google' on business SNS LinkedIn.

Google confirmed the acquisition to TechCrunch, but did not disclose the purchase price. According to TechCrunch sources, the acquisition price is expected to be about $ 100 million (about 14.6 billion yen).

Alter was originally founded as Facemoji, a platform that provides plug-and-play technology to help game and app developers incorporate avatar systems. Avatar technology startups of this kind include Loom.ai, which was acquired by Roblox in 2020, and HyperSense, which was acquired by Epic Games. After renaming it to 'Alter', it received 3 million dollars (about 440 million yen) from Twitter and Roosh Ventures in a round led by venture capital Play Ventures.

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Alter SDK was published on GitHub, but new API key generation was stopped, new partner sign-ups were stopped, and existing partners were no longer able to access by the end of August 2022.

Robin Raszka, former CEO of Alter, retweeted the TechCrunch report on Twitter.



In addition, the profile column is set to 'former founder of Alter (acquired by Google)'.

r0b.eth (@robinraszka) / Twitter
https://twitter.com/robinraszka



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