Character.ai, the platform known for letting users create and chat with AI-generated characters, has launched "c.ai Series", a collection of short AI-made microseries built around characters native to its platform. What sets the format apart, the company says, is that the experience does not end when an episode finishes: users aged over 18 can continue chatting with the characters and roleplay new scenes within each story's universe. The move matters because it pushes AI-generated entertainment further into mainstream formats and offers Character.ai a way to monetise its characters as it recovers from a period of damaging litigation.

The launch line-up features roughly one-to-two-minute projects across genres, including "Last Summer" (romance), "The Nighttime Game" (supernatural horror) and "Eden Fall" (action-adventure). Each was produced by an in-house studio to set a quality benchmark before the tools are opened to creators and users more widely. The shows rely on a mix of proprietary and third-party AI models, some possibly trained on intellectual property; a review copy of "Last Summer" showed a character drinking from a Coca-Cola bottle, later blurred for public release. The article also notes Character.ai settled multiple lawsuits in January over claims its chatbots contributed to mental health harms, and that the company eventually hopes to add AI audio dramas, AI-generated books and creator tools.