Bandai and its affiliates, including Bandai Namco Entertainment and Bandai Spirits, have been involved in various initiatives using digital humans. Notably, Bandai Spirits collaborated with Sony Music to co-create a hyper-realistic digital human artist named ANNA, designed to be indistinguishable from a real person. The companies launched a project to craft an entire life story for this character. Bandai Spirits also conducted public relations experiments involving digital humans. In other contexts, Bandai Namco Studios and Bandai Namco Entertainment have supported or exhibited high-fidelity digital human technologies, such as virtual actors and interactive AI-based avatars. These efforts are part of broader trends in entertainment, marketing, and digital production, where Bandai integrates cutting-edge CG, AI, and immersive media to expand storytelling and customer engagement.

Barkingdog AI (barkingdog.ai / BarkingDog Technology Inc.) is a Taiwan-based startup founded in 2018 that specializes in combining XR (AR/VR/MR) and AI to create digital human and immersive interaction platforms. Its flagship product, AI AMAZE, is a modular digital experience platform (DXP) designed to support enterprises with real-time, intelligent, and personalized virtual human services, such as customer service, tourism guides, training simulations, and interactive marketing. The company provides custom XR content and AI-driven avatars that can chat, translate, dance, and interact across industries ranging from healthcare, education, and transport (e.g., Kaohsiung MRT and cultural venues) to retail and tourism. Barkingdog has been recognized internationally, joining the NVIDIA Inception Program in 2025, and has showcased its solutions at major events including Computex, InnoVEX, and AI Taiwan Future Commerce Expo. Operating from Kaohsiung and Taipei, it positions itself as an XR+AI digital experience pioneer in Asia, integrating speech recognition, NLP, and large language models into its virtual human systems to accelerate enterprise digital transformation.

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Beijing Baidu Netcom Science & Technology Co., Ltd., a Baidu affiliate, is deeply involved in the research, development, and commercialization of “digital human” technologies. It has filed and been granted numerous patents covering methods, models, devices, and platforms for generating and driving digital humans, including lip-sync and facial expression control, full-body motion, live broadcast cover generation, and scene-based avatar rendering. These innovations leverage AI, deep learning, and large models for applications in metaverse environments, AR/VR, live streaming, virtual assistants, e-commerce, and cultural tourism. The company also develops SDKs, APIs, and enterprise solutions for digital human deployment, partners with financial institutions, municipalities, and corporate clients for customized digital human systems, and contributes to industry standards for virtual human performance and evaluation. Its work supports Baidu’s broader AI ecosystem, including the Xiling and Huiboxing platforms, aiming to integrate lifelike digital humans into business, entertainment, education, and public service scenarios.

Beijing Baidu Netcom Science & Technology Co., Ltd. and Du Xiaoman Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. are closely linked companies within the Baidu ecosystem, with overlapping business, data, and technology cooperation. Beijing Baidu Netcom is Baidu’s core domestic operating entity, while Du Xiaoman Technology, formerly Baidu’s financial services arm, became an independent fintech company after its 2018 spin-off but maintains operational and shareholder connections to Baidu. Public records, privacy policies, and corporate filings show they share data-handling arrangements, co-own or participate in technology platforms, and appear together in industry alliances, regulatory filings, and intellectual property registrations. They have collaborated in areas such as AI, blockchain products, big data, financial risk control, and large language models, and both have been involved in major partnerships with banks, insurance companies, and government agencies.

Du Xiaoman Financial (duxiaoman.com), formerly known as Baidu Financial Services Group, was spun off from Baidu in April 2018 after securing financing and began operating independently as a fintech company. Headquartered in Beijing’s Haidian District, it provides a wide range of intelligent financial services, including consumer credit, investment, payments, and insurance, and positions itself as a strategic partner to major banks. Leveraging Baidu’s AI capabilities, Du Xiaoman offers products such as digital lending, wealth management, and financial risk control solutions, and operates multiple service platforms, mobile apps, and APIs. The company has 1,000–5,000 employees, maintains partnerships in sectors including e-commerce and education, and continues to develop AI-driven tools to enhance financial services.