Karandeep Anand

In the race to build AI faster than everyone else, what does it mean to pause? Hear @_karandeep, CEO @character_ai, on choosing responsibility over speed, even when the entire industry is moving in the opposite direction. Because not every race needs to be won first. Some need to be built right. #OriginalThinking #SYNAPSE2026 #SYNAPSEConclave #ai

Most accounting software just made the paperwork faster. We want to eliminate it entirely. That's why we're building @AccrualHQ 👇

BREAKING: Thoma Bravo just released their LP meeting slides. The world's largest software PE firm thinks the market has it completely wrong on software right now. Public markets are panic-selling software based on AI fear. Here's what they're seeing:

The story of Jaswant Singh Khalra MUST be told. It's not for Sikhs, Hindus, Whites or Blacks. It's for humans. He challenged darkness - did not let it settle around him.

"We are all exploring. Every iteration of LLMs improves after what people tell it what to do!" @_karandeep at #Synapse2020.

@samdblond 🚀🚀🚀

We're launching Monaco today. Monaco automates customer acquisition and revenue growth for startups. The platform disrupting sales with AI has finally arrived.

Go @getCos! Can’t wait to see how Accrual uplevels the accounting workflows!

@pedroh96 Always #foundermode

Job's not finished

Huge congrats to @pedroh96 @hdubugras and the entire @brexHQ team. It is not often two 20 year olds decide to move to the US from Brazil and build a fintech company and exit at $5B+. I have learned so much working with the both of you and it was the privilege of a lifetime to see you build Brex Here are my fun and favorite stories 1/ 2017: @hdubugras decides he does not know how to hire engineers in the US and applies for a job at a startup to go through the full process and then asks to meet with the CEO and converts them into an angel investor 2/ Before hiring the first employee, Pedro and Henrique decide they need to see if the company will be even worth a $1B. They attend an accounting class at Stanford to build a model which Michael Tannebaum then tears apart 3/ Pedro's written culture: Pedro has so much empathy that it is unmatched to most leaders. When the going got tough, @pedroh96 - you led with intensity, optimism every single day and that showed through every part of Brex. Your letter to the company about the role your mom played in shaping you during your toughest times in your childhood is by far one of the best and most inspiring letters I have seen from a leader to date You put together an incredible team - Michael, Camilla, Ben, Art, James among so many others that stayed in the trenches every single day. You should be proud and a new chapter begins. And kudos to my former partner @daltonc who spotted them at YC, accepted them into the batch for a VR idea, convinced them to pivot to Brex and always said: this team is special.

Today we remember the #ChaarSahibzade the four sons of Guru Gobind Singh Ji martyred for refusing to bow to oppression. Two, aged 6 and 9, were bricked alive. Revered across India for their ultimate sacrifice in defence of religious freedom, justice and dignity for all. 🙏🏽

50 fastest growing software vendors report … no surprise to see so many exciting ai startups in this list but also some of my all time favorites like Replit and Clay

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

@pedroh96 This is HUGE! Go team! 🚀🚀🚀

Today we’re announcing the most significant partnership in Brex’s history. Brex is becoming the corporate card for tens of thousands of Fifth Third Bank’s commercial banking clients, unlocking $5.6B in commercial card volume and access to 8% of the US commercial banking customers. 98% of businesses in our country are still using legacy corporate cards. Mid-sized businesses in industries like construction, infrastructure, medical services, shipping and logistics are critical to the US economy, yet their finance teams still operate incredibly manually. By combining Fifth Third’s trust and distribution with Brex’s agentic workflows, we’ll help these businesses save thousands of hours per year of manual work, and better allocate their capital towards what matters. What began as a card for startups has become a full-stack intelligence platform for finance, now serving 300+ public companies and tens of thousands of mid-sized businesses. Grateful to Tim Spence for the partnership and vision of building this together. This is a major moment for commercial businesses nationwide, and for Brex’s next era of growth. Onwards! 🚀

I visited the golden temple in Amritsar today. The place is absolutely stunning but having a chance to see and eat at the biggest community kitchen of the world was insane. It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that everything is free for everyone. No religion, no status, no background needed. Just walk in. Eat. Be welcomed. And most of it runs purely on volunteers. Standing in that atmosphere, watching millions be fed with zero expectation in return… it’s honestly a very inspiring things to witness. How is this scale even possible?

Day 1 at @FTLive #FutureofAI is done. Highlights: Sir @timberners_lee, Character.AI's @_karandeep, and @TheGenAICEO with @andrewtghill on keeping people in control, scaling expertise, not sidelining it. @MyPersonasai/@EloquensAI showed 24/7 help with human oversight.

Ghosted? NAH. We do the haunting. 😏 For a limited time only, use Spooky AU Imagine Chat and Spooky Remix to send your Characters into a haunted dimension! Witches, ghosts, and mysterious surprises await. Post it to Feed and share it with the hashtag #SpookyAU. Don’t forget to tag us on socials!! Let’s see who haunts it best. 🎃

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I was impacted by Meta layoffs today. As a Research Scientist working on LLM posttraining (reward models, DPO/GRPO) & automated evaluation pipelines, I’ve focused on understanding why/wehere models fail & how to make them better. I’m looking for opportunities; please reach out!

congratulations 🤝 you've been promoted to director now anyone can create scenes for their favorite characters! today, we’re excited to announce scenes creation is now live on web 👉 blog.character.ai/introducing-sc…

guess what?! our lil' powerhouse model is rolling out to even more users, delivering longer, richer roleplay and more expressive storytelling! check your app for pipsqueak today ✌️

we're expanding the Character.AI universe and looking builders who dream big! 💭✨ searching for world-class builders, designers & researchers who want to make imagination interactive. if YOU or anyone you know in Product & Design, Engineering, and ML might be interested, send them here 👉 jobs.ashbyhq.com/character