Character.AI enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but there’s a twist

The company said on Thursday that it is also testing a feature, dubbed c.ai FM, that will let users put together audio series, and another that lets you create fiction, called c.ai Reads. The audio series feature is currently available to select users under its experimental c.ai Labs program, which the company says professional writers are using to create serialized audio dramas.

There’s certainly an audience for this form of entertainment. Users spend more than 950 minutes on Character.AI each month in the first half of 2026, according to Sensor Tower.