Models and generation engines
What runs underneath: generation, voice and motion models, and the engines that drive a face in real time.
- 360 Group (360集团) — Its Zhinao model powers avatars, including Zhou Hongyi's.
- Alibaba DAMO Academy — Alibaba's research company: the Winter Olympics digital human Dongdong and the sign-language digital human Xiaomo
- Anhui Jiechuan Information Technology — An AI digital-human generation engine combining convolutional networks with Transformers
- Anji Feitian Yundong Technology (安吉飞天云动) — Flowing Cloud mainland subsidiary credited with FT Live, the LLM-driven 3D virtual digital human broadcast platform
- APUS (麒麟合盛) — It links LLMs to avatars.
- ArcSoft — Hangzhou computer-vision company building realistic digital-human modelling, driving and rendering, and VR facial capture
- AutoNavi (高德地图) — Alibaba's Amap operator whose navigation digital human Xiaogao Laoshi reached 2.6 billion daily calls, with the FantasyTalking engine open-sourced
- Beihang University (北京航空航天大学) — Beijing university holding a granted patent on real-time conversational digital avatars; launched digital-human assistant Xiaohang
- Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (智源研究院) — BAAI builds WuDao multimodal foundation models powering digital humans like Hua Zhibing
- Beijing Dajia Internet — Kuaishou group company that holds its digital-human and avatar patents
- Beijing Huiye Technology Co., Ltd. (慧夜科技) — Its 3D engines drive custom characters.
- Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (北京通用人工智能研究院) — Beijing institute behind Tongtong, a virtual-girl general AI agent now moving into robots
- Beijing Timedomain Technology Co., Ltd. (时域科技) — AI singing voice synthesis company behind ACE Studio vocal engine
- Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (北京邮电大学) — BUPT is a top Chinese tech university advancing digital-human research, systems, and standards
- Beijing Zhiliao Technology — Beijing maker of the Lingque real-time digital human engine and custom digital doubles
- ByteDance (字节跳动) — ByteDance's Beijing operating company: digital-human research (OmniHuman, LatentSync) and the Volcano Engine digital-human algorithm filing
- China Mobile (中国移动) — State-owned parent of China Mobile; applicant on 130+ digital-human patents with its research institute
- China Mobile (Hangzhou) Information Technology — China Mobile's Hangzhou R&D company; digital-human generation patents and digital-human systems for TV
- China Mobile Internet — China Mobile's internet-services company: digital-human calling on 5G New Calling and digital humans on cloud phones
- China Telecom AI — China Telecom's AI company, Tianyi AI (天翼AI): Xingchen (星辰) models with TeleAI, digital-human patents, the digital panda Su Lin (苏琳)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) — CAS drives China's digital human agenda across cognition (CASIA), pipelines (ICT), medicine, heritage, and education
- Dalian Dongrui Software (东锐软件) — Dalian motion-capture pioneer turned virtual-human engine vendor, with Dongfang Xinrui 3D virtual humans in media, elder-care and legal-kiosk service
- Deemos Technologies Inc. (影眸科技) — AI company with Hyper3D platform converting text/images to 3D assets
- DeepScience (中科深智) — Beijing AI company (2016) with Motionverse real-time multimodal engine
- DeepSeek (深度求索) — DeepSeek powers AI digital humans in livestreaming, education, services, and smart city platforms
- Extreme Vision Technology Co., Ltd. (极视角科技) — Extreme Vision specializes in digital humans, vision algorithms, and smart city tech
- Flowing Cloud (飞天云动) — HK-listed AR/VR content leader whose FT Live platform and virtual digital human matrix (Mo Xiaoyu, Li Haoya) serve livestreaming and cultural tourism
- Fudan University (复旦大学) — Co-developer of the EmoTalk3D digital-human framework with Huawei, and of the NeuroHolo metaverse rehab case
- Guangming Laboratory (人工智能与数字经济广东省实验室（深圳）) — Shenzhen provincial AI laboratory whose media-intelligence team built the open-source GMTalker 3D digital human
- Guangzhou Chuanghuan Digital Technology (创幻科技) — The Guangzhou company behind the Chaociyuan virtual-IP brand — virtual anchor systems and idol services for Bilibili, Tencent and NetEase
- Guangzhou Lingju Information Technology — Guangzhou dialogue-AI firm supplying the conversational brain for livestream digital humans
- Guangzhou NetEase Computer System — NetEase operating company that files the NetEase AI Lab digital-human generation algorithm
- Huawei (华为) — Huawei's principal operating company; files patents on generating virtual avatars
- iFLYTEK (科大讯飞) — Leading AI company with comprehensive digital human ecosystem via Zhizuo platform
- Inner Mongolia Aoyun Information Technology — Hohhot software company that co-developed the first Mongolian-language AI news anchor with Inner Mongolia University
- Inner Mongolia University (内蒙古大学) — Co-created China's first minority-language AI anchor, the Mongolian Aoyun synthetic anchor, and the Janggar digital human
- Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院自动化研究所) — CAS institute behind the Zidong Taichu multimodal model and its virtual human Xiao Chu; co-created Mango TV's AIGC character Sun Xiaosheng
- Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院计算技术研究所) — CAS institute building digital-human reconstruction, relighting and animation pipelines; co-developer of Aier Eye Hospital's 200-plus expert digital humans
- JD Technology — JD Group's technology arm; maker of the Yanxi digital humans used in JD livestream selling
- Jiangsu Wenchuang Culture Development — Nanjing culture-tourism company behind the Dream of the Red Chamber digital IPs Lin Duidui (林怼怼) and AI Cao Xueqin (曹先生)
- Kunlun Tech (昆仑万维) — SkyReels open-source, audio-driven digital humans for video and commerce
- Lenovo New Vision — Lenovo's industrial-metaverse company whose all-in-one terminal fronts its domain models with a 3D expert digital human
- Lumverse (渲光科技) — Domestic real-time 3D engine with digital humans among its declared verticals, spun out of Perfect World's ERA engine
- Magics Technology (迈吉客科技) — Zhongguancun AI+CG company whose Magics engine drives fully intelligent virtual anchors and custom digital employees
- Media Brain Technology — The Chuanbo large model, a digital human co-creation platform, and the digital anchors on Chao News
- Mingyuan Cloud (明源云) — Real-estate digitalization company whose 2D hyper-real marketing digital human Xinghe made the 2025 ministry metaverse cases
- MiniMax — Shanghai foundation-model company behind the AI-companion app Xingye (星野), where users design a character's face, voice and persona
- Mobvoi Inc. (出门问问) — AI company with comprehensive digital human solutions and voice cloning capabilities
- 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
- Nanjing Xuanjia Network Technology — Nanjing AIGC studio behind the CAC-registered Kino video model and the named AI digital-human actors Kairos and Lumina
- NetEase (网易) — NetEase's Hangzhou company; its Fuxi AI Lab files the Fuxi virtual-human generation algorithm and runs the Yaotai virtual event platform
- NetEase Youdao (网易有道) — Youdao's technology company; files the Youdao digital-human algorithm behind its virtual tutors
- NextHuman (唯物科技) — Hangzhou super-realistic digital-human engine maker called the company behind the digital-human companies; its Bai Xiaochou won the 2024 digital-human debate contest
- Ningxia Hope Information Industry — Yinchuan AI company whose Xiyan large model, Ningxia's first CAC-filed LLM, drives its government-service and counseling digital humans
- Niren Intelligent Technology (拟仁智能) — Zhejiang-University-incubated AI+CG company building rapid-construction AI virtual humans for enterprise metaverse scenes
- NiuTrans (Shenyang Yayi) — Machine-translation house NiuTrans, whose smart translation screens put digital-human interaction into foreign-facing service windows
- Qinghai Normal University (青海师范大学) — Operates Tibetan-themed campus virtual IP Zhuoma, built by Guangzhou Virtual Dynamics; leads the Tibetan-intelligence lab behind the Zhida model
- SemiGraph — Shanghai start-up behind the AI-native 3D virtual-idol game Code Live (代号Live), driven by its own human behaviour model
- SenseTime (商汤科技) — AI platform for lifelike avatars with multilingual voiceovers and real-time rendering
- SentiPulse (思维光谱) — AI startup that open-sourced the SentiAvatar 3D digital human framework
- 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 Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) — Self-built virtual news anchor Jiaojiao from its Medialab, plus the Gen3DHF digital-human evaluation dataset
- Shanxi Chunqiu Electronic and Audio-Video Press — Shanxi state publisher that built the province's culture large model, fronted by a digital human that answers visitors
- Shanxi Publishing and Media Group — Shanxi publishing group building the Jinwen AI culture model and its digital human IP Jindou
- Shengshu Technology (生数科技) — Tsinghua-derived video model maker whose Vidu S1 drives digital humans in real time
- Sichuan Cover Media Technology — Chengdu technology arm of Cover Media, applicant on digital-human expression-driving and speech-to-face patents
- Sichuan Guancha Zhimei (观察智媒) — Sichuan Radio and Television's smart-media company, building the Chuantai large model and digital-human technology for its newsrooms
- Sogou (搜狗) — Digital human platform with 3D modeling, translation, and real-time facial animation
- Soul App — Runs an avatar-first social app and open-sourced SoulX-FlashTalk for real-time digital humans
- StreamLake (溪流湖) — Kuaishou's B2B arm, carrying virtual humans since its 2022 launch and running Mengniu's Naisi presenter on Kuaishou itself
- Sun Yat-sen University (中山大学) — Guangzhou university running the self-built agri-livestream DH anchor Huang Xiaowei and co-releasing TalkVid and Moral RolePlay
- Taobao (China) Software — Alibaba's Taobao software company: assignee of Taobao's digital-human patents, home of the TaoAvatar team
- Taotian Group — Alibaba's Taobao and Tmall group, building livestream digital humans and the TaoAvatar 3D avatar
- Tencent Music Entertainment Technology — Tencent Music's technology company: Lyra Lab's virtual humans and Muse tools, the Zhumian (祝眠) virtual idol and digital-human patents
- Tianwen Digital Media Technology (Hunan) — Digital arm of China South Publishing & Media (中南传媒) that built the Zuo Zongtang (左宗棠) and Zeng Guofan (曾国藩) digital humans; the parent leads the Huxiang culture model project and presents them as its own
- Tongcheng Network Technology (同程旅行) — Tongcheng Travel operating company whose Chengxin travel model powers AI digital humans for government and enterprise partners
- Tsinghua University (清华大学) — Home of Hua Zhibing, China's first original virtual student, created with BAAI, Zhipu and Xiaoice
- Unisound — Hong Kong-listed speech and large-model company whose 2D digital-human generation algorithm is on the CAC deep-synthesis register
- University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (电子科技大学) — UESTC MediaLab develops digital human generation, driving, and health-diagnosis tech via BingoMeta
- University of Science and Technology of China (中国科学技术大学) — Hefei university: Qian Xuesen 'synthetic reality' digital human, NeRF hyper-realistic digital-human product
- Volcano Engine (火山引擎) — ByteDance's cloud and AI company; provider of the Volcano Engine virtual digital human platform (奇美拉)
- Wuhan Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (武汉人工智能研究院) — The Zidong Taichu institute, rendering its multimodal large model as digital humans led by Xiao Chu
- Xueshen Intelligent Technology — Shanghai Jiao Tong University spin-off generating full-stack, hyper-real digital humans
- XVERSE (元象) — AI and 3D content generation, including the MotionGen 3D character motion model
- Yangcheng Evening News Group (羊城晚报报业集团) — Guangzhou press group whose Lingnan culture model lab built a digital human of Tang chancellor Zhang Jiuling
- Zeewain (Ziwei Cloud) — Tsinghua-enabled Guangzhou company whose CAC-filed 3D digital-human synthesis powers its interactive 3D avatar agents and avatar-customization editor
- Zhejiang Lab (之江实验室) — Hangzhou research institute, lead drafter of China's first national standard for sign-language digital humans
- Zhejiang University (浙江大学) — Co-winner of the 2025 National S&T Progress Award for intelligent 3D digital-human production, with FaceUnity
- Zhihui Beizeng Robot — The digital-human startup that drew both iFlytek and Agibot strategic investment before pivoting to embodied robots and relocating to Tianjin
- Zhijing Future Technology (智京未来) — Beijing builder of 2D and 3D digital human production lines, selling likeness and voice cloning to e-commerce livestreaming, education and county agricultural sales
- Zhipu AI (智谱AI) — Cognitive large models and knowledge intelligence for digital humans and AI assistants
- Zhiyi Vector Cloud — Guangzhou medical digital-human company building emotion-capable digital-twin doctors on its Text-to-Soul consciousness model