Shanghai (上海)
Companies registered in Shanghai — place of registration as attested by each company's Unified Social Credit Code. See also the Shanghai digital human timeline.
- Ant Digital Technology (蚂蚁数科) — Its Lingjing platform powers avatars.
- Bank of Communications — State bank running a Baidu-built enterprise-level virtual digital human system across its service channels
- Bank of Shanghai — Employs SenseTime-built digital employees Hai Xiaozhi and Hai Xiaohui across its app and branches
- Baoshanlu Subdistrict (宝山路街道) — Jing'an subdistrict in Shanghai whose government-service platform is fronted by the digital human Xiaobao
- BesTV (百视通) — IPTV pioneer running the digital human anchor Shangwenxuan in a virtual studio
- bilibili (哔哩哔哩) — China's anime and youth video platform, home of Chinese virtual idols and streamers, owner of Luo Tianyi (2018) and VirtuaReal (2019)
- Chatoys — Shanghai maker of ClawHouse X1, a holographic AI terminal, and an AI 'digital family' for the elderly
- China Eastern Airlines — Major carrier whose in-app digital human Dongdong handles booking, refunds and special services on Baidu Cloud digital-employee tech
- China Television Media (中视传媒) — CCTV-affiliated listed producer putting AIGC digital humans into film-base tourism
- Chingmu (青瞳视觉) — High-end optical motion capture systems & full-stack digital human solutions
- Deemos Technologies Inc. (影眸科技) — AI company with Hyper3D platform converting text/images to 3D assets
- Emotibot (竹间智能) — Shanghai emotional computing company with multimodal digital human employees
- Guao Technology — Listed fintech whose Guao Finance product builds digital-human twins of finance personalities for investor education
- Guomai Culture (国脉文化) — China Telecom subsidiary deploying digital humans (Xiaoyì, Irene, Eryu) across enterprise, events, and media via its Qiyuan platform
- Guotai Haitong Securities — Merged megabroker running normalized DH video broadcasts and the Lingxi AI-native app's advisor-plus-DH livestream mode
- Haobai Information Service (号百信息) — China Telecom unit whose AI communications assistant sends a digital human to answer calls for its users
- iResearch (艾瑞咨询) — Leading Beijing-based Chinese research firm shaping China's digital human market data and forecasts
- Jiufang Zhitou (九方智投) — Hong Kong-listed investment advisory selling a productised Jiufang Digital Human
- Kanjian Gainian (看见概念) — Kanjian Gainian’s Nie Ta is an AI digital human platform for stylized social, emotional characters
- Kunzhiyi AI (鲲之益) — Shanghai AI company behind Zhangjiagang's first AI digital-livestream base, cloning a photorealistic digital human in about ten minutes
- Migu Video Technology — Operator of the Migu Video app: the Meet GU sports digital human, 3D player digital humans and avatar services
- miHoYo (米哈游) — Shanghai game developer whose in-house AI unit created the virtual streamer yoyo Lumi in 2020 and now feeds its digital-human work into games
- MiniMax — Shanghai foundation-model company behind the AI-companion app Xingye (星野), where users design a character's face, voice and persona
- Mirafans (镜界) — Licensing intermediary brokering AI likeness rights between individuals and production companies
- MoFa (Shanghai) Information Technology Co., Ltd. (魔珐科技) — Shanghai maker of hyper-realistic 3D digital humans, behind the virtual idol Ling (2020), the Youyan video tool and the Xingyun embodied-avatar platform
- Oriental Pearl (东方明珠) — SMG's listed new-media arm, putting digital humans into a cultural-tourism stack it distributes on its own IPTV and OTT licences
- Overland Digital – DGene (叠境数字) — Vision technology company providing 3D intelligent solutions with light field technology
- SemiGraph — Shanghai start-up behind the AI-native 3D virtual-idol game Code Live (代号Live), driven by its own human behaviour model
- Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (上海人工智能实验室) — AI research institute whose Digital Human Group builds the OpenXDLab platform for 3D human modelling, rendering and generation
- Shanghai Bilibili Technology — Bilibili's mainland operating entity and rights holder of the first registered fully-virtual-human audio dataset, Luo Tianyi's
- Shanghai Electric (上海电气) — Shanghai municipal SOE folding digital humans into an “AI+” industrial stack with virtual training for wind-power O&M
- Shanghai Fengyuzhu Culture Technology Co., Ltd. (风语筑) — Digital culture company integrating digital humans into immersive exhibition experiences
- Shanghai Huaxun Network Systems — A 2.5D digital human product with zero-code configuration and private deployment
- Shanghai Media Group (上海广播电视台) — Shanghai broadcaster running virtualised news output and shopping-channel digital humans
- Shanghai Mengdian Culture Technology (萌电文化) — Bilibili subsidiary that operated VirtuaReal, China's leading original virtual-anchor brand
- Shanghai Mowu Technology — Co-filer with MoFA of patents on 3D digital human motion sequences and digital-human video generation
- Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism (上海市文化和旅游局) — Shanghai's culture and tourism administration, whose service centre runs a digital human assistant for permit applicants
- Shanghai Museum (上海博物馆) — Museum using digital-human techniques in its cloud sculpture gallery with BesTV
- Shanghai No.1 Social Welfare Institute (上海市第一社会福利院) — Shanghai public care home giving dementia residents digital companions modelled on their own caregivers
- Shanghai Oriental Media Technology (SMT) — SMG's technology company whose Ziwu Studio built the virtual anchor Shen Yiya
- Shanghai Pudong Development Bank — Deploys the nation's first financial digital-human assistant, Baidu-built digital employee Xiao Pu
- Shanghai Quzhi Network Technology — Shanghai operating company of HK-listed Quzhi Group; its Quna retail terminals carry an LLM-driven digital-human shopping guide, not yet deployed at scale
- Shanghai Ranmai Network Technology Co., Ltd. (燃麦科技) — China’s first hyper-realistic digital human developed by Ranmai Technology as brand influencer
- Shanghai Ren Shijian Digital Technology — Generates AI expert and host personas for short-video advertising to older audiences
- Shanghai Shiyi Electronic Technology — Shanghai commercial-display maker building digital-human screens, such as the 98-inch one at the Xiamen Cultural Centre
- Shanghai Siba Culture Media Group — Shanghai idol company behind SNH48 that formed a virtual idol unit and co-released a virtual-human music and dance model
- Shanghai Star Tubit Information Technology Services Co., Ltd. (星图比特) — Enterprise AI model services company with metaverse digital asset management solutions
- Shanghai SuiHuan Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (随幻智能) — Shanghai XR virtual-livestreaming company (brand MRStage): MBOX green-screen studio, hyper-realistic digital hosts
- Shanghai United Media Group (上海报业集团) — Shanghai press group running a digital human matrix across The Paper, Jiemian and CLS
- Shanghai University (上海大学) — Municipal university behind the Shanghai-dialect DH persona Xiaohu, a president digital human, and tendered DH teaching systems
- Shanghai Weiapu Culture Technology (喂啊噗) — Operating company of Bilibili's virtual-idol business including VirtuaReal, 66 percent Bilibili-held, taking Quanzhou state capital in 2026
- Shanghai Xinhua Media Chain (上海新华传媒连锁) — Shanghai bookstore chain whose digital human Xiao YUE hosts a year-round reading campaign
- Shanghai Yuewen Information Technology — Mainland operating company of China Literature (阅文集团, HKEX:00772), whose Ye Xiu became a virtual idol endorsing nine brands
- Shanghai Yunzhi Huichuang Technology — Jing'an AIGC studio that made the seven-part AI digital-human party-history lecture series on Jing'an's shikumen sites
- Shanghai Zhihui Wuyu Intelligent Technology — Shanghai AI firm that co-built a teacher-training platform where teachers practise talks with on-screen digital-human students and parents
- Shanhaiyun (Shanghai) Culture Technology — Shanghai Film City company building a trusted identity and certification platform for digital humans
- Shifang Jingsheng (十方境生) — Shanghai AI content and generative-engine-optimisation company, reported as Digital Domain-incubated
- Shiwu Technology — Shanghai subsidiary of Wangda Software making digital human, XR and metaverse meeting systems
- Shuaiqian Technology (帅签科技) — Shanghai software firm building caregiver-likeness digital companions for elders with dementia
- Soul App — Runs an avatar-first social app and open-sourced SoulX-FlashTalk for real-time digital humans
- Style3D (凌迪科技) — 3D digital fashion design and cloth simulation, supplying the garments digital humans wear
- Tianyi Video Media — China Telecom video company; developer of the Tianyi Ultra HD (天翼超高清) app with star digital humans and digital-human patents
- Tumeng Technology (图萌科技) — Shanghai AIGC+XR education company whose digital teacher Xiaozhua is a ministry typical digital-human case
- United Imaging Intelligence — United Imaging group's Shanghai AI company, maker of uAI Avatar, an on-screen medical digital human for guidance and surgery
- Vsinger (禾念) — Virtual idol brand known for Luo Tianyi and AI-integrated holographic concerts
- Wanda Information (万达信息) — Smart-city and health IT firm running a public-health digital human for disease control
- Wangda Software (网达软件) — Wangda Software and Shiwu Technology co-develop digital humans across banking, education and health
- Xueshen Intelligent Technology — Shanghai Jiao Tong University spin-off generating full-stack, hyper-real digital humans
- Yaoke Media (耀客传媒) — Shanghai drama producer making AIGC micro-dramas led by AI digital humans
- Yixin Group (易鑫) — Automotive fintech whose AI all-in-one machine is guided end to end by a digital human