Tuoyuan (Guangzhou) Wisdom Technology Co., Ltd. (拓元（广州）智慧科技有限公司), also branded publicly as Tuoyuan Wisdom/X-Era.AI (拓元智慧), is a Guangzhou-registered AI company established on December 1, 2021, and it promotes itself as a “full-stack, self-developed” digital-human infrastructure provider focused on AI-generated virtual beings for video production, livestreaming, and interactive content.
Its public-facing product branding centers on “Yuan Avatar/Yuanfen Shen” (元分身) and related “digital clone” positioning, with the company describing the product as enabling users to create human-like avatars for video synthesis, livestream hosting, and interactive scenarios, while specific model architectures, training methods, and performance benchmarks are not disclosed in a way that can be independently verified from primary technical documentation.
Reporting in late 2024 described 元分身 as the firm’s first standardized application product and attributed to the company’s executives claims that it uses multimodal AIGC and interaction technology to generate an AI digital human’s likeness, voice, expressions, and movements for use cases including video editing/derivative production, livestreaming, and personalized interaction. Separate reporting in February 2024 described a consumer-facing application called “Fenshenbao” (分身宝) with a company-claimed workflow in which brief capture can produce a “mirror-like” digital double within minutes, which should be treated as a product claim rather than a verified capability standard.
A Guangzhou Haizhu District government report stated that the company completed a Series B financing round in December 2023 led by Guangzhou Industrial Investment Holding Group and Haizhu City Development Group and that it formally established itself in Haizhu District at that time. Beyond that disclosure, the company does not publish audited financial statements, standardized customer case studies with independently verifiable outcomes, or transparent pricing, so market traction cannot be stated as fact outside of clearly attributed executive or promotional assertions.
Multiple Chinese industry reports have forecast China’s “virtual human/digital human” market reaching about 270 billion yuan by 2030 (often translated around the low-$40-billion range depending on exchange rate and report date), while estimates of China’s livestreaming e-commerce scale vary widely depending on whether the source measures GMV versus platform revenue. An official U.S. government trade report cited China’s livestreaming e-commerce market at approximately $807 billion in 2024, whereas commercial research providers may publish materially different numbers under different definitions, so single-point figures should be tied to a clearly identified methodology and reference year.
In competitive context, pricing and capability claims in the sector are well documented for larger platforms: Tencent Cloud publicly promoted a “DFaaS” digital-human creation service in April 2023 described by multiple reputable technology outlets as producing a customized digital human in about 24 hours for around 1,000 yuan (about $145 at the time) based on short video and voice samples, illustrating the low-end commoditization pressure faced by smaller vendors.
A widely reported milestone for AI-hosted live commerce occurred in mid-June 2025 when Baidu ran a livestream featuring an AI avatar of Luo Yonghao that drew more than 13 million views and generated over 55 million yuan in GMV, which demonstrates the direction of travel for AI avatar adoption in China’s livestream economy but does not evidence Tuoyuan’s own scale or performance.
Public patent reporting indicates the company has filed for and been granted patents in China, including at least one granted patent announced in July 2025 relating to optical-flow-based commodity tracking, which suggests broader applied AI R&D beyond avatar generation, but it does not by itself substantiate distinctive digital-human technical advantages.
Regulatory and legal context is material and can be stated precisely: on August 18, 2025, the Beijing Internet Court released a decision indicating that original virtual digital-human/virtual avatar images can qualify as copyright-protected works of fine art when the required originality threshold is met, providing clearer support for IP protection of avatar visual designs in China, while platform and algorithm-governance obligations in China continue to emphasize labeling and compliance for synthetic or AI-generated content, which affects how digital humans are deployed in marketing and livestream settings.
The verifiable picture is that Tuoyuan/拓元智慧 is a China-based digital-human vendor founded in late 2021 that markets 元分身/Yuan Clone-style “digital clone” tools for video and livestream scenarios, has publicly reported government-backed financing in late 2023, and operates in an ecosystem where major platforms set aggressive benchmarks on price and distribution; claims about “full-stack infrastructure,” “hyper-realism,” “24/7 autonomous selling,” or broad enterprise adoption should remain explicitly framed as company or executive statements unless corroborated by primary disclosures or independent, high-quality reporting with auditable metrics.