aid: chai-research
name: Chai Research
description: '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  documented; both have since been withdrawn — see x-coverage.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/chai-research/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://www.chai-research.com/images/chai-logo.svg
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-09'
modified: '2026-08-09'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Large Language Models
- Conversational AI
- Chatbots
- Consumer Applications
- Machine Learning
- Model Hosting
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/chai-research-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.chai-research.com/
- type: Company
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/chai-research_stock/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.chaiverse.com/
- type: Login
  url: https://console.chaiverse.com/login
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.chai-research.com/news
- type: Roadmap
  url: https://www.chai-research.com/chai_roadmap_2026.pdf
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/chai-research
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.chai-research.com/app-eula
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://privacy.chai-research.com/
- type: Support
  url: mailto:hello@chai-research.com
- type: Packages
  url: packages/chai-research-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/chai-research-llms.txt
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/chai-research-lifecycle.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-09'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 5
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: gated
  reason: partner-login
  detail: >-
    The Chat API documentation host docs.chai-research.com no longer resolves in DNS and the
    documented POST /v1/chat/completions route now returns a bodyless 404, leaving the
    Chaiverse developer console as the only live developer surface — and every path on
    console.chaiverse.com, including /openapi.json, answers HTTP 307 to /login, with the
    developer key issued only through the Chaiverse Discord bot or a HuggingFace OAuth sign-in.
  evidence:
  - url: https://console.chaiverse.com/openapi.json
    status: 307
  - url: https://api.chai-research.com/v1/chat/completions
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.chaiverse.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-08-09'