NetEase
- Chinese name
- 网易
- Pinyin
- Registered name
- 网易（杭州）网络有限公司
- Unified Social Credit Code
91330000788831167Aregistered in Zhejiang 浙江- Websites
- 7774847920
Models and generation engines · Consumer platforms as venues
NetEase (网易（杭州）网络有限公司) is NetEase’s operating company in Hangzhou, based at the NetEase Building on Wangshang Road in Binjiang District. Its listed parent is NetEase, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTES; HKEX: 9999), founded by Ding Lei (丁磊) in 1997. Its digital-human work is done by the NetEase Fuxi AI Lab (网易伏羲), established in September 2017 as a game-focused artificial-intelligence laboratory whose research areas include virtual humans.
The company filed the NetEase Fuxi virtual-human generation algorithm (网易伏羲虚拟人生成算法) with the Cyberspace Administration of China as service technology supporter (网信算备330108633317701230013号). It entered the national list of filed deep-synthesis algorithms in August 2023 and serves business clients, generating 3D virtual-human portraits from images or text and 3D virtual-human video from speech or text. The company holds virtual-human patents, among them CN108538308B on speech-driven lip and facial animation, and its NetEase Intelligent Virtual Human Platform (网易智能虚拟人平台) was named to Hangzhou’s recommended quality-product catalogue in 2021. With Zhejiang University, FaceUnity and Style3D, it completed the project key technologies for intelligent 3D digital-human production (智能化三维数字人制作关键技术及应用), which won a second-class National Science and Technology Progress Award; the project reported 89 granted invention patents.
Fuxi’s virtual-human technology is used in NetEase games, including text-to-face character creation in the mobile version of Justice (逆水寒). Its Youling (有灵) brand offers enterprise clients virtual-human design, driving and interactive services alongside a human–machine collaboration task platform.
The company provides Yaotai (瑶台), an immersive virtual event platform developed by Fuxi, on which participants attend as avatars. Yaotai built the metaverse venue for the 2023 CCTV Online Spring Festival Gala and a permanent venue for the Zhongguancun Forum.
Other NetEase digital-human work is done by separate companies: Youdao’s digital-human algorithm is filed by NetEase Youdao and its virtual-human tutor Hi Echo is published by Beijing NetEase Youdao Computer System; the NetEase AI Lab digital-human generation algorithm is filed by Guangzhou NetEase Computer System; and the Yunxin communications cloud, with its virtual-human solution, is operated by NetEase Yunxin. The AI singers of NetEase Cloud Music’s virtual-singer label WOWAIDO! are built on Xiaoice’s X Studio.