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In the past Qingming holiday, the AI resurrection industry has "exploded" on the Internet again!
Now with "AI resurrection" as the keyword, you can search on an e-commerce platform casually, and a large number of related stores and products can come out.
Among them, the cheapest service may be just a simple video production, allowing the person in the photo to move simply, and the price is as low as 10 yuan. To get the person in the photo to speak, you'll need to pay a higher fee, which can range from hundreds to thousands depending on the detail and length of the video.
AI dubbing is the cheapest service, and providing audio data of the deceased can realize real-time text and voice dialogue services, and the price is generally thousands of yuan.
A more advanced service is an AI digital human, which feeds a large amount of data to a large model, uses AI to fully clone the image, voice, hobbies, and thoughts of the deceased, and interacts with the living in real time. According to the founder of the 51 digital human platform, "the customized 'resurrection of relatives' business generally costs more than 50,000 yuan."
According to the statistics of the Prospective Industry Research Institute, the representative enterprises in the upstream of China's digital human industry chain include the Force of image design, the rendering of Unity, the motion capture of Intel, the field of artificial intelligence iFLYTEK, etc., the middle of the industrial chain mainly includes NetEase, iFLYTEK, Phase Core Technology, etc., and the downstream of the industrial chain mainly includes Tencent, Alibaba, Shaw Hospital and other application subjects.
Although the "AI digital immortality" service has received widespread attention and demand in the market, it has also been mired in ethical and legal controversies. Some people think that this is not a sustenance, but a scar.
Top 10 hottest digital immortal companies in mainland China in 2024
Shanghai Fushouyuan Industrial Group Co., Ltd
With the empowerment of metaverse technology, the exploration of digitalization in the funeral industry has become a global wave.
Founded in 1994, Fushouyuan is a professional life service platform. In June last year, Fushouyuan released the first digital human model of Fushouyuan, which was based on the famous media personality Cao Jingxing. At the beginning of this year, Fushouyuan also released the first digital family ancestral hall in China with virtual and real interaction - "Yuan Jiazai".
"Physical cemeteries are becoming more and more scarce, and the information they preserve the lives of the deceased is also limited, so AI technology, cloud technology, and the metaverse must be the future development direction of the funeral industry. Fan Jun, vice president of Fushouyuan International Group, said.
With the popularity of the "digital immortality" business, many major Internet companies have successively deployed the digital human industry, among which, the Tang Xiaoou digital human model created by SenseTime Technology has aroused heated discussions after its release.
Beijing SenseTime Technology Development Co., Ltd
Recently, SenseTime held its 2024 annual meeting, which is the first annual meeting after the death of Tang Xiaoou, the founder of SenseTime, in December last year. Tang Xiaoou still completed the speech according to the opening sentence of "Let's review last year's speech first", and also talked about the current popular movies and television. Not only that, Tang Xiaoou's digital human also demonstrated the action of "drinking water" on the spot.
According to Qichamao's query, in 2014, Tang Xiaoou founded SenseTime Technology, which was first born from the artificial intelligence laboratory of Chinese University of Hong Kong. SenseTime raised $2.2 billion in funding in its fifth year, with SoftBank China investing $1 billion to bring its valuation to $6 billion. According to 2019 data, SenseTime's latest valuation reached 40 billion yuan.
In addition to the Internet giants, many companies focusing on digital immortality business have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.
Beijing Hongmian Xiaoice Technology Co., Ltd
Before Shang Tang used AI to "resurrect" Tang Xiaoou, the story of musician Bao Xiaobai using AI to "resurrect" his deceased daughter also made netizens teary-eyed, and he used AI to "resurrect" his daughter to sing a birthday song to his wife to express his thoughts. From February 2023, Bao Xiaobai began to cooperate with Xiaoice.
Xiaoice is a Chinese artificial intelligence high-tech enterprise, formerly known as the artificial intelligence Xiaoice team of Microsoft (Asia) Internet Engineering Institute, which has been spun off from Microsoft in July 2020 and operated independently. At present, Xiaoice has hatched tens of millions of AI beings, such as the girl Xiaoice, Rinna, the expo participating painter Xia Yubing, singer He Chang, little cousin, human observer MERROR, robot anime character Roboko, etc.
Nanjing Super Mind Information Technology Co., Ltd
At present, Super Brain and Zhang Zewei's name have appeared in major head media many times, as if it is already a phenomenal company. According to its founder Zhang Zewei, a video of more than 10 seconds, a positive photo, and an audio of more than 15 seconds can be "resurrected" by putting it into a large model for 1 week of training, and they charge 5,000-10,000 yuan for this, and have completed more than 1,000 orders so far.
According to Qichamao, Nanjing Super Mind Information Technology Co., Ltd. will only be established in March 2024, and its development speed is amazing.
Silicon-based Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd
Founded in 2017, Silicon-based Intelligence is the world's first AIGC digital human model, and is an artificial intelligence unicorn enterprise in Nanjing, a national-level specialized and new "little giant" enterprise, focusing on the in-depth research and development and application of AI technology, and is committed to empowering the digital transformation of enterprises.
In 2023, Silicon-based Intelligence will release the "Yandi Large Model", which supports the automatic generation of digital human short videos, digital human live broadcasts, digital immortality, digital entertainment, etc. At the same time, silicon-based intelligence has cloned 500,000 silicon-based digital human clones, with an average of 50,000 digital human live broadcasts per day. At present, silicon-based intelligence is valued at nearly $1 billion and has nearly 100 authorized invention patents.
Shanghai Xiyu Jizhi Technology Co., Ltd
MiniMax is a new generation of artificial intelligence company, the main body of the company is Shanghai Xiyu Jizhi Technology Co., Ltd., founded in November 2021, and its founder Yan Junjie is the former vice president of SenseTime Technology and the head of general intelligent technology. The registered capital of the enterprise is 20 million US dollars.
Minimax takes large models as the main research and development direction, and has formed a basic model architecture of three modalities: text to visual, text to audio, and text to text. The first self-developed product based on large-scale model technology, Glow, was launched in November 2021, focusing on emotional companionship A socialization, with multiple modes of free chat and plot tasks, and currently has nearly millions of registered users.
Digital Lifelife (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd
Founded in May 2021, the team comes from scientific research institutions such as Beijing Institute of Technology, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Advanced Center of Central Academy of Drama, bringing together talents in various fields such as optics, graphics, and computer science. Before the establishment of the company, the team has been exploring the collection and AI-driven technology of high-fidelity digital humans in colleges and universities for nearly 5 years, forming a digital human solution system with complete independent intellectual property rights, and precipitating rich technical strength.
Beijing Wuyi Vision Digital Twin Technology Co., Ltd
Beijing Wuyi Vision Digital Twin Technology Co., Ltd. (51WORLD) is a digital twin platform company, and its digital human product is the 51 digital human platform.
Forecast of the market prospect of China's digital human industry
At this stage, the digital human industry is in the early stage of growth, and the industry is growing rapidly, but in the future, with the increase in the number of enterprises entering the market, the continuous development of technological innovation, and the reduction of the overall technical barriers of the industry, the growth rate of the industry market volume may decline. Based on this, it is expected that the market volume may reach 30 billion yuan in 2027, and the overall compound annual growth rate of the industry from 2022 to 2027 may reach 30%.
The future development of China's digital human industry has different development trends in different fields such as technology, business evolution, and capital investment, and the relevant development trends are analyzed as follows:
Big coffee point of view
Qiu Daoyong, Secretary-General of the Greater Bay Area Digital Human Industry Alliance, believes that digital humans are the culmination of a variety of cutting-edge technologies, as a form of AI2.0 visualization, and also the super entrance of WEB3.0 and the metaverse.
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For more research and analysis of this industry, please refer to the "Analysis Report on the Development Prospect Forecast and Investment Strategic Planning of China's Digital Human (Virtual Human) Industry" by the Prospective Industry Research Institute
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