Natural Selection (自然选择) is a China-based consumer AI company positioned around “AI companion” and “AI-native” social products that use character-like digital doubles and long-term memory as the primary interaction layer: it built the 3D AI companion app EVE (EVE AI) and later put Elys into external testing as a next-generation social network app whose core mechanic is an “AI cyber clone” that learns a user’s style and preferences and can perform pre-interaction behaviors (such as scanning content and generating likes/comments) before the human user takes over for confirmation and deeper conversation, effectively treating the user’s digital double as a persistent social actor. Public reporting on the company describes in-house development of an emotional-companion dialogue model (Vibe) and a memory model (Echo), plus integration of real-time content recommendation, multimodal interaction, and 3D interaction features as the technical stack behind its digital-human/AI-companion experiences, and it has been linked to major China tech and gaming-industry capital via a disclosed financing round (reported as over US$30M) and strategic investment relationships, including coverage tying Elys’ rollout to Kingnet Network (恺英网络) as an investor and additional reporting listing investors such as Alibaba and Ant Group.
(You will see the company referenced as “Natural Selection,” “Nature Select,” and “Natural Selection (Shenzhen) Intelligent,” while the official registered Chinese name is 自然选择（深圳）智能有限公司 and it is often shortened in Chinese to 自然选择 or 自然选择（深圳）智能, and its web presence has been cited with both natureselect.ai (current corporate domain) and natureselect.tech (an older/alternate domain used in some references).)