iQIYI
- Chinese name
- 爱奇艺
- Pinyin
- Registered name
- 北京爱奇艺科技有限公司
- Unified Social Credit Code
91110108660527705Xregistered in Beijing 北京
iQIYI (北京爱奇艺科技有限公司), registered in Beijing’s Haidian district on 27 March 2007, is the domestic company through which iQIYI, Inc., listed on Nasdaq, runs the iQIYI video platform: it is named as the operator of the iQIYI app and holds the ICP filing for iqiyi.com (京ICP备11032965号).
It has filed deep-synthesis algorithms for the iQIYI app with the Cyberspace Administration of China: the iQIYI generative synthesis algorithm (爱奇艺生成合成算法) for image and video generation (网信算备110108811591901230011号, in the second batch, September 2023) and the iQIYI AI dialogue generative synthesis algorithm (爱奇艺AI对话生成合成算法) for AI dialogue (sixth batch, June 2024). The platform has also been a stage for virtual idols: iQIYI created the virtual idol band RiCH BOOM with Wanxiang Culture (万像文化) in 2019, and produced Dimension Nova (跨次元新星), billed as China’s first virtual-idol talent show, which premiered in late 2020.
Its sister company iQIYI Guangying Jiyuan Technology runs the AI film-production platform Nadou Pro (纳逗Pro) and its library of licensed digital doubles of actors; another, Beijing Qiyi Century Technology (北京奇艺世纪科技有限公司), holds iQIYI’s patents on virtual characters, such as generating three-dimensional virtual-character images (CN113592988A) and rebuilding a virtual character from voice data (CN113689532B).