Xiaoice

Xiaoice Company was formerly the Xiaoice team of Microsoft. On July 13, 2020, Microsoft announced the spin-off of Xiaoice into an independent entity while retaining its investment interests. After the spin-off, the team accelerated the integration of global cutting-edge technologies with localized products, expanding its leading advantages in basic research on artificial intelligence. Xiaoice is a complete foundational framework for artificial intelligence interaction subjects, designed for the entire interaction process, also known as the Xiaoice Framework (Avatar Framework). It includes a core dialogue engine, multiple interactive senses, triggers for third-party content and generation of first-party content, as well as cross-platform deployment solutions.
Since its release, the Xiaoice Framework has led technological innovation in artificial intelligence. Currently, it is one of the world's most complete AI frameworks in terms of interaction volume, with technologies covering natural language processing, computer speech, computer vision, and AI content generation. It holds a leading position in open-domain dialogue, multimodal interaction, super-natural speech, neural network rendering, and content generation. This framework is among the most mature and largest of its kind globally. In addition to China's Xiaoice and Japan's Rinna, the official AI interaction subjects, the Xiaoice Framework also supports interactive subjects for over 100 third-party brands in China and Japan (such as SoftBank's Pepper), with total interactions accounting for approximately 60% of global AI interactions.
The Xiaoice Framework has incubated tens of millions of virtual humans (AI beings), including some well-known instances such as the young girl Xiaoice, young girl Rinna, Expo-participating painter Xia Yubing, virtual anchors N Xiaohei and N Xiaobai of National Business Daily, Cui Xiaopan, the outstanding new employee of Vanke Group in 2021, anchor F201, singer He Chang, human observer MERROR, robot maid Roboko, and other widely recognized virtual celebrities. There are also less-known nobody instances, such as tens of millions of virtual boyfriends and virtual girlfriends accompanying ordinary users. In addition, many virtual humans work quietly in vertical scenarios, such as Guanjun, the AI referee and coaching system for the national aerobatics team, financial summary writer Wan Xiaobing, intelligent cockpit companion HiPhiGo, fashion designer West Lake No.1, as well as music producers and financial risk controllers.