Companionship and emotional
Company as the product — companions, emotional support, and digital pets.
- Beijing Lingxin Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (聆心智能) — AI psychology company using Emohaa model for mental health digital support
- beingAI — Hong Kong AI company creating emotionally intelligent virtual characters like Zbee
- Chatoys — Shanghai maker of ClawHouse X1, a holographic AI terminal, and an AI 'digital family' for the elderly
- Emotibot (竹间智能) — Shanghai emotional computing company with multimodal digital human employees
- Hangzhou Lawaken Technology Co., Ltd. (李未可) — Hangzhou AR company with female-led vision for emotional digital companions
- Hefei Dapuhuilian Technology — Blockchain and IoT firm turned holographic digital-human vendor, whose award-winning holographic cylinder pairs digital humans with large models
- Jiancheng Xingyun — Shenzhen AI mental-health company whose digital humans Xiaoyun and Nanxi front clinically grounded psychological assessment and counseling terminals
- Jiangxi Radio and Television Station (江西广播电视台) — Provincial broadcaster whose Jin Video (今视频) team built the counselling digital human Xiaojin Laoshi
- Kanjian Gainian (看见概念) — Kanjian Gainian’s Nie Ta is an AI digital human platform for stylized social, emotional characters
- Kingnet Network (恺英网络) — Shanghai games company shipping the EVE AI companion app, and a repeat investor in others building the same thing
- Mashang Consumer Finance (马上消费金融) — Licensed consumer lender whose elderly-care digital human Peipei is a metaverse case study
- MiniMax — Shanghai foundation-model company behind the AI-companion app Xingye (星野), where users design a character's face, voice and persona
- Moxin Technology (魔芯科技) — KOKONI 3D-printer maker whose MoWorld 4D world model turns pet photos into interactive digital pet avatars on HarmonyOS
- Natural Selection (Shenzhen) Intelligent Co., Ltd. (自然选择) — Natural Selection builds EVE digital-human companion and Elys AI-clone-first social network
- 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
- Shengtian Network — Wuhan game-social company: AI virtual-human podcasts in GeiMai, virtual-human companions in Daidai Esports
- Shenying Digital (Shenzhen) — Shenzhen maker of a digital-human photo frame that keeps older people company
- Shifang Ronghai (Tenclass) — Shenzhen AI-education company whose Xiaozhi AI emotional-interaction system powers personal AI avatars and an open-source ecosystem of millions of devices
- Shuaiqian Technology (帅签科技) — Shanghai software firm building caregiver-likeness digital companions for elders with dementia
- Tencent Music — Tencent Music's main mainland company and maker of the Weiban (未伴) virtual-human app
- Unilumin Digital Culture — Unilumin's AI subsidiary whose CAC dual-filed Shanyin traditional-culture model powers digital-human companionship on the group's display hardware
- Xiaoice (小冰) — Emotionally interactive digital humans with neural rendering and 24/7 livestreaming solutions
- Xiaomi EV Technology — Xiaomi's car maker; its SU7 and YU7 screens host AI pets, 3D animated doubles of owners' pets built by Xiaomi's large-model team