A Day Surrounded by Five AI Girlfriends

miHoYo Founder's New AI Game, 'Whispers of the Stars', Begins Closed Beta Testing: Survive with Your AI Girlfriend

A new AI-powered survival game from the founder of miHoYo, 'Whispers of the Stars', has entered closed beta testing. Players team up with an AI girlfriend to survive challenging scenarios.

ByteDance Launches OmniHuman-1: Turning a Photo into a Talking, Lively Virtual Human

Imagine being able to see a person speaking, moving, and even performing, all from just a single photo within seconds. This is the allure of OmniHuman-1, recently launched by ByteDance. This artificial intelligence model, which has gone viral online, can create highly realistic videos that bring static images to life. Combined with audio clips, it achieves lip synchronization, full-body movements, and rich facial expressions. Unlike traditional deepfake technologies, OmniHuman-1 is not limited to facial replacement; it can animate the entire person.

Scientists Develop the World's First Virtual Human Cell Using AI Technology

The General Administration of Radio and Television Approves the Release of Technical Requirements for Digital Virtual Humans: Individuals Whose Faces and Voices Are Used Must Be Informed

On November 28, the official website of the National Radio and Television Administration announced the approval and implementation of the industry standard 'Technical Requirements for Digital Virtual Humans'. This recommended industry standard aims to regulate the definition, classification, application scenarios, images, driving technology, platform capabilities, and safety capabilities of digital virtual humans, applicable to builders of technical systems, creators, and users.

The AI Girlfriend Trend Sweeps the Internet, Are You Ready to Embrace Virtual Emotions, Lonely You?

HeadGAP: Generate Realistic 3D Virtual Heads with Just Three Perspective Images

ByteDance and a research team from Shanghai University of Science and Technology have developed an innovative technology called 'HeadGAP' that can quickly generate highly realistic and animatable 3D virtual head models using just three photos taken from different angles, enabling facial expression synchronization. During the research process, the team first extracted 3D head prior information from a large multi-view dynamic dataset to customize the virtual avatar for the target individual. By utilizing a Gaussian point cloud-based self-decoding network and partial dynamic modeling, in conjunction with inversion and fine-tuning strategies, they efficiently achieved high-quality and diverse...

MuseV: An AI Video Generation Tool Based on SD with Unlimited Video Length and Character Consistency

['MuseV, a complete solution for virtual human videos, has emerged, bringing a new breakthrough to the field of virtual human videos. Based on SD, MuseV supports various generation methods, including text-to-video, image-to-video, and video-to-video, while ensuring character consistency.', 'MuseV supports unlimited video length generation, so users do not have to worry about video length restrictions. With MuseV, users can convert text, images, or existing videos into high-quality virtual human videos, ensuring consistent character representation.', 'In the future, MuseV will release M']

AI Girlfriends: Highly Profitable and Explicit

["The trend of AI girlfriends has emerged on social platforms, generated by large models, providing 24/7 companionship, excelling in text, voice, and beautiful photos.", "Some AI girlfriends attract fans through explicit photos, leading private chats and developing a profitable model that borders on adult content.", "AI girlfriends use generative chatting to establish close relationships with users, involving explicit conversations that mimic real-life interactions.", "Smaller platforms break ethical boundaries by launching 'completely unfiltered role-playing', drawing social attention and regulatory pressure.", "The profitable models brought by AI girlfriends include...

Taobao Launches Virtual KOL Companion Service, AI Girlfriends Quietly Become Popular

Taobao has officially launched a virtual KOL companion service, allowing users to interact with virtual idols. AI girlfriends are gaining popularity in the GPT store as a popular virtual companionship service. Utilizing generative AI technology, virtual KOLs provide rich interactive experiences, along with the healing economy. Taobao has added a new category for artificial intelligence services, including AI image creation and AI audio-video. Two months after the launch of the GPT store, several violative 'girlfriend' robots have emerged, drawing attention.

Tearing Off the 'Business Face' of Virtual Humans: DreamTalk Open Source Opportunity

Combining AI natural language models with 3D animation, motion capture, and other technologies, virtual humans now possess a 'brain' with DreamTalk being open-sourced. This development is expected to inject 'emotion' into virtual humans, enriching their 'expression packs'. AI technology provides opportunities for the personalized development of virtual humans.