# Chai Research

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/chai-research/  
**Website:** https://www.chai-research.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Chai Research Corp. (CHAI) is a Palo Alto consumer AI company building a character-and-story chat platform, where users create and talk to AI characters on iOS, Android and the web. Founded in 2021 by William Beauchamp, the company trains and serves its own conversational language models on an in-house GPU cluster, and runs Chaiverse — a developer platform where outside model builders submit HuggingFace-hosted language models, have them deployed to real Chai App users, and compete on a public leaderboard. A public Chat API (api.chai-research.com) and a chaiverse pip package were previously documented; both have since been withdrawn — see x-coverage.

## Kin Score — 17.0 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 17.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 15.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Security (1)

- **Chai Research Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, Conversational AI, Chatbots, Consumer Applications, Machine Learning, Model Hosting

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/chai-research/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.