{"id":464664,"date":"2026-02-09T23:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/464664\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T23:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T23:49:13","slug":"andreessen-horowitz-backs-ai-virtual-character-in-1st-japan-related-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/464664\/","title":{"rendered":"Andreessen Horowitz backs AI virtual character in 1st Japan-related bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20260209N Shizuku AI\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Shizuku is a character developed by Shizuku AI. The company plans to develop the character as an AI companion. (Screenshot by Ryotaro Yamada)<\/p>\n<p>RYOTARO YAMADA<\/p>\n<p>February 10, 2026 06:21 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">PALO ALTO, California &#8212; U.S. venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz has invested in Shizuku AI, a California startup founded by a Japanese entrepreneur, Nikkei learned on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shizuku is a character developed by Shizuku AI. The company plans to develop the character as an AI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[92993,62,189723,20992,1875,49,48,10593,189724,189725,61,269],"class_list":{"0":"post-464664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-1st","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-andreessen","11":"tag-backs","12":"tag-bet","13":"tag-ca","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-character","16":"tag-horowitz","17":"tag-japan-related","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-virtual"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}