36 Krypton learned that Beijing Tiaoyue Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Tiaoyue Intelligent”), a Generative AI marketing digital human research and development service provider, has completed tens of millions of yuan in angel and angel + rounds of financing. Among them, the angel round is invested by ZhenFund, The angel + round was invested by Hanergy Venture Capital.
Tiaoyue Intelligent is an AI digital human start-up company with full-stack core technical capabilities. With the industry accumulation of the founding team for many years, it has deeply cultivated and opened up the use of AI for video synthesis, lip and body movement synthesis, emotional speech synthesis, dialogue engine and knowledge The five major technologies of Tupu already have a number of mature product lines such as “Diaoyue AI Broadcasting”, “Diaoyue Digital Human Video Synthesis Platform”, “Diaoyue Master Clone”, and “Diaoyue Digital Human API”.
“We have been paying attention to and using Diffusion (diffusion model) technology to synthesize digital people and scenes since 2019. The authenticity of the product is outstanding, and it was quickly recognized by KA customers from various industries. Through the use of these customers, we We have also accumulated big data knowledge graphs from these industries, so as to continuously improve the intelligence of digital people.” Dr. Bao Yingze, founder and CEO of Tiaoyue Intelligent, told 36 Krypton: “As of now, we have accumulated more than 2,000 paid users. Delivered interactive AI digital human, the number of delivery is far ahead in the domestic digital human market.”
Bao Yingze graduated from the Department of Electronics of Tsinghua University with a bachelor’s degree. He is a Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan and Stanford University, focusing on computer vision. As an early employee, he served as the head of the SLAM team at Magic Leap, and later founded xPerception, a 3D vision company in Silicon Valley, and successfully exited. Since then, he has served as the chief architect of Baidu and the chief scientist of VIPKID, responsible for the research and development and application of image synthesis, NLP, ASR, TTS and other technology lines. He has fifteen years of research and development experience in the field of AI and product experience for millions of users.
The AI digital human product of Tiaoyue Intelligent has the outstanding characteristics of high intelligence in question and answer, lifelike image and voice. This comes from the complete digital human technology stack: firstly, the presentation layer. Jumping intelligent digital human realizes the Q&A access of almost all live broadcast and e-commerce platforms; secondly, the deployment of digital human has been highly engineered and developed to support the cloud Native and Windows stand-alone version deployment; at the same time, Tiaoyue Smart provides non-technical users with a low-code platform to configure digital humans; in terms of lower-level model capabilities, Tiaoyue Smart uses million-level business scene data for deep learning Image, sound, text synthesis.
Digital people started with millions of dollars of investment and gradually became civilians. Many application directions and business models have also been derived.
Tiaoyue Intelligence focuses on creating a marketing plan for AI digital humans, and solves specific problems such as pre-sales, sales and after-sales services for brand e-commerce, local businesses, micro-businesses, and customers from finance, government affairs, exhibitions and other fields.
There is undoubtedly a high threshold for AI digital humans to become a real productivity tool. Once this threshold is passed, a new market space will be opened up. On the one hand, digital employees can cope with the labor shortage in many industries; on the other hand, with the continuous reduction of the marginal cost of SaaS services, the cost of using digital employees is bound to continue to decrease; in addition, with the improvement of digital human intelligence, its use efficiency will also be further improved.
Specific to the product level, in terms of modeling methods, the AI digital human of Tiaoyue Intelligent can provide multiple ways to create digital human beings such as video twins, 3D twins, and hyper-realism; in terms of usage methods, it can provide interactive live broadcast, video mass production, Various usage methods such as WebRTC and API calls.
Dr. Bao Yingze introduced the AI capabilities of Tiaoyue Intelligent Digital Human in detail: the appearance of the digital human is synthesized by AI; body movements, head movements and mouth shapes are also synthesized by AI; 80% of digital population broadcasts are written by AI; 60 % of the answers are generated by AI; the background image of the live room is also synthesized by AI. For example, in the process of using the product, the user only needs to enter a 20-word keyword when configuring the copy, and AI can complete it to 200 words. This is very important for many novice users.
Jumping Smart can deliver KA customers Function as a Service (FaaS), small programs, OBS and other access methods. Provide low-code platform configuration functions for ordinary merchants, even non-professionals can easily complete the initialization settings of digital humans, which greatly reduces the start-up cost for users. Moreover, the AI digital human product of Tiaoyue Intelligent is the first in China to pass the 3-minute Turing test of the live delivery scene. In addition to e-commerce live broadcasts, the AI digital human of Tiaoyue Intelligent has been widely used in industries and fields such as intelligent customer service, electronic commentator, smart cockpit of new energy vehicles, and commercial real estate.
The popularity of the domestic digital human market is obvious. According to the “Digital Human Industry Development Trend Report (2023)” released by Tencent Research Institute, Tencent Cloud Intelligence, and Entrepreneurship Dark Horse, digital humans will enter a period of large-scale application and transform real productivity to create value. . By 2026, the scale of China’s AI digital human market will reach 10.24 billion yuan, and the digital human market will show a trend of rapid growth.
Tiaoyue Intelligent was established in June 2021. The core team is composed of the original Baidu and VIPKID technical backbones. It has experience and resource networks in artificial intelligence, the Internet, e-commerce, education, consumption, entertainment and other fields. Proven track record of entrepreneurial success.
Investor comments
Wang Wei, managing partner of Hanergy Venture Capital, said: “We believe that digital humans and AIGC will become the future of popularized productivity, and we are also optimistic about the core technical strength of the Tiaoyue Intelligent Team in the field of multi-modal intelligence, rapid iterative product development potential, multi- The ability to commercialize scene exploration. I look forward to the future that Jumpy Smart can provide low-threshold, low-cost, high-performance, and high-efficiency digital human tool products for more industry customers.”
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