Google
Character.AI
University of São Paulo
Barret ZophVice President of Research · Google DeepMindResearcher↗DD
Researcher · Founder
Daniel De Freitas
Google DeepMindResearch Scientist
De Freitas helped lead Google's Meena and LaMDA conversational models, early demonstrations that scaling neural language models could produce open-ended dialogue. He then co-founded Character.AI, bringing character-driven conversational systems to a mass audience, before returning to Google DeepMind.
Career & education
Current role
Research Scientist
Previously
Co-founder
Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations7,580As of Jun 15, '26
citations+4,072Since last snapshot, Aug 25, '25
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