On July 26th, CDEC's Global Game Industry Conference was held, and Dai Qi, the current Chief Product Officer (CPO) and Head of Juvenile Studio, was invited to attend and delivered a keynote speech on "Practice Sharing of AI-Enabled Global Game R&D and Operation", and for the first time disclosed the image of Yoozoo's first AI playmate product "Codename Xiaoyouchan".
Yoozoo established the AI Innovation Institute last year, focusing on breakthroughs in the two core areas of "AIGC" and "AI-empowered game globalization", providing full-link support for game research and operation, and achieved remarkable results. At the Global Game Industry Conference, Dych also introduced the application of AIGC from various aspects such as art, audio, text, code and animation.
In terms of art, Youzu Network provides functions such as character reference, style mapping, and partial repainting through AI tools, which greatly improves the production capacity and efficiency of art, and the company's art outsourcing cost will be greatly reduced in 2023. In terms of text, Youzu Network has carried out corresponding corpus training for different games, which has greatly reduced the cost of copywriting translation and improved the efficiency of plot creation. In terms of AI-assisted programming, code is commented and written in a standardized manner to further improve the quality of code.
At the conference, Dai Qi also shared Yoozu's AI applications in audio and animation, showing that Yoozoo uses existing dubbed audio as a corpus for training, and AI generates a voice model to adjust the voice and tone. In terms of animation, Youzu Network uses generative tools in scripting, storyboarding, refinement, dynamics, dubbing, etc., to assist in creation, and apply them in stages.
Relying on 15 years of accumulation in the interactive entertainment industry, Youzu Network is committed to building a fully connected AI culture and entertainment ecosystem, and has made a comprehensive layout in terms of AI hardware infrastructure, industrial responsibility, enabling the application of the culture and entertainment industry, and talent training, opening up the idea of the entire entertainment industry chain and promoting the sustainable development of the AI industry.
In May this year, Youzu jointly launched the "New Quality Productivity Digital Innovation Alliance" with People's Venture Capital and Sugon to empower the digital transformation of enterprises. In July, Youzu participated in the "Autonomous Intelligent Unmanned System Large Model Program", focusing on building the main body of artificial intelligence application scenarios. In addition, the "AIGC Innovation Platform for the Integration of Industry and Education" jointly initiated by Youzu and Tongji University has realized the strong combination of educational resources and enterprise resources, forming a driving force for the birth of a new industrial economy.
In this speech, Zhongyouzu disclosed the image of the AI playmate "Codename Xiaoyou-chan" for the first time and announced the start of testing. "Codename Xiaoyou Sauce" can be incarnated as a game customer service to answer various questions from recharge inquiries to account binding, and can also formulate exclusive game strategies according to the actual situation of players to help players clear the customs smoothly. "Codename Xiaoyu-chan" can also interact with players in daily conversations, provide emotional value, and accompany players through every game moment. In addition, players can also make more personalized choices, such as character design, switching between voice packs in different local dialects, and independent training content, so that every day is full of freshness.
In the future, "Codename Xiaoyou Sauce" will also provide more diversified customization, launch more personalized function settings and new characters, adapt to more products outside of Youzu's games, open more ports, and realize comprehensive applications from in-game embedding to APP, desktop assistant, applet and other ports.
Based on the global R&D and publishing of games, Yoozoo will continue to uphold the mission of "Promoting Civilization with Science and Technology", continue to promote the in-depth integration of cutting-edge technologies such as AI technology with games, and work with upstream and downstream enterprises to jointly promote technological innovation in the industry and build an innovative ecosystem for the cultural and entertainment industry.