(Reuters) -Character.AI said on Friday it had signed an agreement with Alphabet's Google that grants the search engine giant a non-exclusive license to the chatbot maker's current large language model technology.

The co-founders of Character.AI, Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, will join Google along with some other members of the company's research team.

Dominic Perella, Character.AI's general counsel, will become the interim CEO of the company, effective immediately, it said in a blog.

The deal also provides increased funding for Character.AI, the blog said, without disclosing the amount.

"We're particularly thrilled to welcome back Noam, a preeminent researcher in machine learning, who is joining Google DeepMind's research team, along with a small number of his colleagues," a Google spokesperson said.

Law firm Sullivan & Cromwell advised on the deal.

(Reporting by Juby Babu in Mexico City; Editing by Alan Barona and Devika Syamnath)