Roleplay LLMs are created to power empathetic AI companions. In contrast, Productivity LLMs like GPT-4 are created for tasks like data analysis, classification, writing code etc. While Productivity LLMs serve business use-cases, Roleplay LLMs serve the consumer use-case of entertainment.

Roleplay LLMs are the biggest consumer use-case of AI. Character AI is the world's most used AI product after ChatGPT/Gemini and gets 20,000 queries per second, which is ~20% of Google Search's volume. Unfortunately, Character's model is totally closed sourced, and they raised $100M+ to train it from scratch

Subnet 11's goal is to create an open-source alternative to Character AI's closed source Roleplay LLM (more info here)