263 Network Communications (263.net) is a Chinese technology company specializing in cloud-based enterprise communication solutions. It offers a range of services including enterprise email, digital customer service, and AI digital human solutions. The company has integrated technologies such as virtual livestreaming studios and customizable virtual humans for corporate training, marketing, and digital interactions. Its metaverse team developed digital human avatars like “Chang Xiaoping” for use in media and official events. 263 emphasizes digital transformation through video strategies and continues to expand in virtual reality, human-computer interaction, and immersive AI experiences.
360 Group (Qihoo 360) has developed a broad AI ecosystem centered on its "360 Smart Brain" large model, which powers a wide range of digital human applications. These include AI digital employees, personalized assistants, video-generation tools, interactive avatars, and virtual presenters, all aimed at enhancing enterprise productivity, user services, and content creation. The company has publicly showcased its progress through initiatives such as the launch of founder Zhou Hongyi’s digital persona "Digital Lao Zhou", integration of digital humans across education, healthcare, finance, and media, and the rollout of the "360 AI Suite" that unifies its AI services via ai.360.com. With multimodal capabilities, memory, personality traits, and humanlike reasoning, 360 positions its digital humans as the next-generation interface for man-machine collaboration, reinforcing its strategy of combining AI innovation with digital security leadership.
37 Interactive Entertainment (37wan.net) is positioning itself as a leading force in China’s digital human and AIGC industries. The company created the virtual human “Onion Girl,” who serves as a smart city assistant, event guide, and cultural ambassador, and has been officially recognized as a “Guangzhou City Partner.” It is opening three core capabilities: gamified digital interaction solutions for large-scale events, an AI digital human technology platform for cultural and tourism organizations to develop virtual spokespersons, and a global publishing network to export city culture. The company also launched the nation’s first metaverse art museum, invested in AI and brain-computer interface technologies, and partnered with institutions such as Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts on projects blending digital humans with traditional cultural design. With technologies including AI motion capture, holography, and its proprietary “Xiao Qi” large model, 37 Interactive Entertainment has expanded beyond gaming into metaverse applications, cultural innovation, and digital human-driven marketing and public services.
37entertainment.net is the official global website of 37 Interactive Entertainment, a major Chinese cultural and gaming company founded in 2011 with headquarters in Shanghai and Guangzhou. The company operates well-known brands such as THREE SEVEN GAMES, and multiple publishing platforms including 37Online, 37Mobile, and 37GAMES, while also expanding into metaverse projects, film, television, animation, and music. It has developed socially impactful games, such as those designed to support children with autism and public education during the COVID-19 pandemic, and produced cultural works like interactive Spring Festival games. Ranked among China’s top 10 video game companies, it is also active in sustainability, pledging to use 100% renewable electricity by 2027 and committing to significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, 37 Interactive Entertainment leads industry standards in digital content governance, invests heavily in R&D, and promotes ESG initiatives, earning high ratings such as AAA performance in corporate responsibility and an MSCI AA rating in the internet sector.
37games.com is the official gaming platform of 37 Interactive Entertainment, operating internationally as a major publisher and developer of browser and mobile games. Founded in 2011, it covers markets across North America, Europe, mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia, with well-known titles such as Puzzles & Survival and Puzzles & Conquest. The platform supports in-app purchases, global login services, and customer support, and it serves as a hub for distributing and promoting the company’s games under its global brand 37GAMES.
37.com is the official web portal of 37 Interactive Entertainment’s online gaming platform, offering a wide selection of browser-based and mobile games in China. It serves as the central hub for players to access RPGs, strategy, fantasy, and historical titles, with dedicated sections for PC and mobile users, as well as recharge services, customer support, and VIP privileges. The platform is positioned as a major online game distribution and operations site under the 37 brand, providing integrated gaming experiences for Chinese players across web and mobile ecosystems.
A-Cut is a Hong Kong–developed AI digital human generation application created by Aplus+ Marketing, promoted as the city’s first Cantonese-language digital human app. Available for Android and desktop, it enables rapid, low-cost creation of highly human-like avatars for continuous 24/7 live streaming, video production, and customised virtual character services. The platform offers bespoke voices and lip-syncing in Cantonese, positions itself for use in entertainment, livestreaming, and promotional content, and has been marketed through demonstrations such as virtual concerts with celebrities. The company highlights ease of creation, affordability, and localised language support as its core differentiators.
AutoNavi (a.autonavi.com), a subsidiary of Alibaba, has developed advanced digital human technologies integrated into its navigation and location-based services. Its core engine, HumanRig, powers 3D virtual avatars used in personalized navigation, IP voice packages, and dynamic in-app visual elements. AutoNavi has also open-sourced components of its digital human framework, focusing on audio-driven realism and interactive experiences. These avatars are designed for applications such as AR navigation and digital storytelling, aligning with Alibaba’s broader smart city and AI strategies.
Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun) offers a virtual digital human platform integrated with its broader cloud ecosystem, enabling AI-driven avatars for use in livestreaming, customer service, and marketing. Its OpenAPI developer portal provides SDKs and tools to build and deploy interactive digital humans with real-time animation, voice, and lip-sync capabilities. These avatars are positioned as brand ambassadors or virtual assistants across multiple channels. The platform supports independent deployment, allowing businesses to create customizable AI characters based on Alibaba Cloud’s infrastructure, leveraging large language models like Tongyi Qianwen for conversational functions.
Alibaba has been actively developing and deploying digital humans across a range of applications using AI and 3D technologies. These digital humans are used for e-commerce, virtual livestreaming, brand ambassadorship, customer service, and content generation. Products and services include AI-powered avatars capable of real-time interaction, multilingual communication, and personalized shopping guidance. Alibaba Cloud offers tools like LivePortrait to create talking avatar videos from a single photo and voice input. The company has open-sourced several frameworks such as MNN and Mnn3dAvatar to support developers in building 3D digital humans. Notable digital human projects include "Dong Dong," a virtual spokesperson for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and “Xiao Mo,” a sign-language translating employee created with Damo Academy. Alibaba’s platforms, including Taobao and Alibaba International, provide SaaS tools and governance rules for AI livestreams and virtual hosts.
PixelAI is an Alibaba-affiliated research and development team focused on visual computing technologies used in digital human creation and enhancement. The team is best known for developing the TaoAvatar system, a high-fidelity, real-time 3D full-body avatar solution based on 3D Gaussian Splatting. PixelAI has released several notable projects through its GitHub page, such as TaoAvatar and GaussianTalker, which support advanced AI-driven avatars with facial expressions, gestures, and real-time speech interaction. Their technologies are designed to work on mobile and AR devices, including the Apple Vision Pro. PixelAI has also developed tools for image enhancement, video restoration, real-time portrait segmentation, and AR-based product interaction (e.g., virtual try-ons), and has won awards in national broadcasting and AI competitions for its innovations in digital human and video processing technologies.
TaoAvatar (taoavatar.org) is a real-time 3D full-body avatar system developed for augmented reality, capable of generating lifelike digital humans from multi-view image sequences. These avatars are fully controllable in terms of pose, gestures, and facial expressions, and run efficiently on mobile and AR devices like the Apple Vision Pro at up to 90 FPS. The technology uses 3D Gaussian Splatting and a personalized parametric template, enhanced through a StyleUnet-based pre-training phase, followed by knowledge distillation into a lightweight MLP network for mobile deployment. The system also includes Audio2BS for natural voice-driven animation. Applications include e-commerce live streaming, holographic communication, and virtual agents. Interactive demos and a high-resolution dataset, TalkBody4D, are available through their HuggingFace repository. TaoAvatar combines photorealism, real-time rendering, and device compatibility, but still faces challenges in fine-grained control and resource demands.
AET Altai (Altai Extended Technology) collaborated with Liaoning Radio and Television Station to deploy a virtual host within the station’s newly upgraded XR smart media studio. This partnership involved the use of AET Altai’s immersive audiovisual technologies, including LED display walls, real-time rendering, and AR-enhanced environments, to create a digital human capable of interacting with viewers in a broadcast setting. The virtual host debuted during major programming, such as the Spring Festival shows, and was animated in real time using facial motion capture and Unreal Engine. This collaboration demonstrates AET Altai’s role as a key technical provider in China's push toward integrating digital humans and XR production into mainstream media.
HaimaCloud, operated by Anhui Haimacloud Technology Co., Ltd., is a Chinese company specializing in GPUaaS (GPU as a Service) real-time cloud rendering solutions for industries such as cloud gaming, digital humans, and AIGC applications. The company offers a platform called "Yuanling" for producing high-fidelity, film-grade digital humans at reduced costs, supporting standardized exports for integration with third-party tools. HaimaCloud provides users with tools to create 3A-quality digital humans using only mobile devices, supporting facial animation, body customization, and real-time interaction. The company has developed its own ultra-low-latency transmission system and large-scale container orchestration infrastructure, enabling high-performance rendering and editing of hyper-realistic avatars. It is positioning itself as a foundational platform for the metaverse and has filed for IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange as of June 2025.