All people

Researcher · Founder

Daniel De Freitas

DD

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

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.

See something inaccurate or outdated?

Background

Current role
Research Scientist
Previously
Co-founder,
About this data

Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 9, 2026

Citation Trend

2 snapshots
Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Jun 15, '267,5805,5443,508Aug 25, '25Jun 15, '26
7,580citations as of Jun 15, '26+4,072 since Aug 25, '25
For today’s citation count and citations per paper, visit Google Scholar.