Unique Research · Company / Funding · December 12, 2022
Beijing Tiaoyue Intelligent (跳悦智能), Generative-AI marketing digital-human R&D vendor, closed two rounds totaling multi-million RMB: ZhenFund angel (Jun) and Hanergy Ventures angel+ (recent; disclosed together). Tencent Research/Tencent Cloud AI/Chuángyè Heima Digital Human Industry Trends 2023: China AI digital-human market to ¥10.24B by 2026.
Founded Jun 2021; full-stack AI digital-human startup; core team from Baidu + VIPKID. Five tech stacks: AI video synth, lip/body motion, emotional TTS, dialogue engine, knowledge graph. Product lines: Tiaoyue AI DaiBo (proxy live), digital-human video platform, creator clone, digital-human API. Sole natural-person shareholder (100%).
CEO Dr. Bao Yingze: 15y AI R&D; Tsinghua EE → Michigan/Stanford CV PhD; Magic Leap SLAM lead; xPerception (3D vision, successful exit); Baidu principal architect; VIPKID chief scientist (image synth/NLP/ASR/TTS). Claims 2,000+ paying users delivered interactive AI digital humans — leading domestic volume; Diffusion-based synth since 2019; KA-recognized realism. Creation: video twin / 3D twin / hyper-real; usage: interactive live, batch video, WebRTC, API. Example stack: AI face + motion/lips; ~80% scripts AI-written; ~60% answers AI-generated; backgrounds AI — 20-char keyword → 200-char copy. First to pass 3-min Turing test in live-commerce; also CS, e-guides, NEV cockpits, commercial real estate. FaaS / mini-program / OBS for KAs; low-code for SMBs. Hanergy’s Wang Wei: bullish on digital humans + AIGC as pervasive productivity.
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