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The story of Taiwan's digital human industry begins on July 3, 2020, when the International Virtual Human Forum and Asian Hackathon Creation Contest convened at digiBlock C in the Taipei Digital Industry Park. Guided by Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs and organized by the DIGI+ DEIPO office and the Taiwan VTuber Association, with the Institute for Information Industry as executor, the gathering framed its discussion around the concept of digital twins. Four speakers anchored the agenda: Daniel Gregoire of HALON Entertainment, Takeshi Osaka of Activ8 (the Tokyo studio behind Kizuna AI), Norman Wang of Glassbox Technologies, and Tang Sheng-rong, general manager of Greener Grass Production. Hybrid in format, the forum streamed live to audiences in Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, modeling the regional ambitions of Taiwan's nascent virtual-human community even at this early stage. That same year, the Kaohsiung-based Innova Medical Technology brought one of the island's first virtual-patient applications to international attention. Founded by Tsai Tsuen-chiuan, a pediatrician at Kaohsiung Medical University, alongside chief executive Chen Teh-fang, the company developed the V-DxM platform of highly realistic virtual patients for medical training. Sponsored through the Kaohsiung Economic Development Bureau's KOSMOS XR incubator and supported since 2018 by the city's Somatosensory Technology Park Project, Innova was profiled by VRScout in late 2020 as a cost-effective alternative to traditional medical simulation.
In 2021, ChoozMo — a Taipei startup founded in August 2020 under chief executive Liang Che-wei — published its first AI news-anchor video on July 9, introducing "Han Hsiao-hsia (Summer Hen)," described as Taiwan's first AI news anchor. The following month brought a structural development of broader regional consequence: the Asian Virtual Human Association was founded in Tokyo in July 2021, with Christopher Chen, who also chaired the Taiwan VTuber Association, named a founding director. The shared leadership cemented operational ties between the two ecosystems. During the third edition of the Taiwan VTuber Association's annual hackathon, organized around the theme "Beautiful Life, City Marketing," Hsing Wu University of Science and Technology took home both the Best Application and Best Visual prizes.
The first half of 2022 was marked by two events that defined the technical and policy infrastructure for what came next. On March 23, Reallusion released its ActorCore library for NVIDIA Omniverse, timed to NVIDIA GTC 2022; the integration was announced under chief executive Charles Chen and made ActorCore content available through the Omniverse asset store. Six weeks later, on May 6, Meta opened Asia's first physical XR Hub at digiBlock C in Taipei, in joint partnership with the Institute for Information Industry. President Tsai Ing-wen attended alongside American Institute in Taiwan Director Sandra Oudkirk and Stephanie Chu, head of Meta Greater China; Meta's chief product officer Chris Cox addressed the audience by video. The hub launched three programs spanning arts and culture (with TAICCA), commerce (through a Taiwantrade pavilion), and social welfare (with the Taipei Computer Association). Domestic technology firms continued to reach milestones through the latter half of the year. On October 13, RedPill Lab released RedPillGo, billed as the world's first sensorless motion capture running on mobile and powered by AI; founded in 2017 by chief executive RH Shih and chief technology officer Dobry Todorov, the company had been the only Taiwan member of the 2017 Vive X cohort and had received National Development Council backing. On November 12, the fourth Virtual Human Hackathon Creation Contest held its award ceremony at the MoDA Information Month exhibit under the theme "Digital Twin Virtual Humans Open the Metaverse — Taiwanese Local Specialties," drawing more than sixty teams from institutions including National Taipei University of Technology, Hsing Wu, Wenzao, Yuan Ze, and Dongnan Senior High.
The year 2023 saw Taiwan's digital-human sector mature on multiple fronts. On January 5, the Taiwan AI Association convened an AI Talk in Taipei featuring four experts, among them Jerry Wu, founder and chief executive of APMIC, who spoke on virtual humans. By late March, the Smart City Summit and Expo at Nangang Exhibition Center, partly organized by the Taipei Computer Association, hosted the Multiverse Application Alliance. In April, AI EXPO Taiwan 2023 ran from April 19 to 21 at Huashan 1914. On May 12, HTC Medical VR partnered with Asia University's College of Nursing, under dean Wu Hua-shan, to launch the Virti AI virtual-person lesson-plan creation platform — billed as the world's first generative-AI metaverse lesson-plan workshop — combining ChatGPT with Virti VR for nursing and medical training. COMPUTEX 2023, held from May 30 to June 2, debuted "Sabrina," an 85-inch interactive virtual fortune teller that combined APMIC's GPT model, Digital Domain's virtual human, a Litemax 85-inch display, and NVIDIA support. Less than a month later, on June 26, Formosa Television aired the debut of its AI virtual news anchor "Min-Hsi" at 18:30 on the international weather segment of Global View FTV. Developed over roughly six months by the Taipei firm OSENSE — founded in 2017 and led by chief executive Wang You-kuang — Min-Hsi used a diffusion-model AIGC pipeline together with Microsoft Azure AI text-to-speech and viseme synthesis.
In the autumn of 2023, Creative Expo Taiwan opened on September 21 and ran through October 1 at C-LAB on the former Air Force Command Headquarters site; the exhibition "Open Air Force Command × AI Multiple Futures," curated by Wang Chun-hsiung and Chen Wei-chih and produced by VISION BASE of Shih Chien University's Design College, featured nine AI virtual characters. On October 3, Public Television Service debuted its second-generation VTuber, Hai Yue Lin Lin, whose name uses the character pair 粼粼 to evoke sparkling water. ATEN International, listed in Taipei as 6277, used the 2023 DATE SUMMIT held under the auspices of the Ministry of Economic Affairs International Trade Administration and TAITRA to showcase its 優聲學 (ATEN AI Voice) platform alongside a photorealistic 3D AI host. The summit gathered nineteen AI industry leaders from six countries under the theme "AI in Action," with Chang Chiao-yung, ATEN's deputy general manager for consumer products and R&D, presenting the work. Around the same period, BEARVFX — known in Chinese as 能火動畫 — partnered with NEC Taiwan to develop an interactive 3D AI virtual human; founded on February 22, 2023, by Cheng Yi-Ci as an independent Taiwanese startup, BEARVFX presented the project to attendees from TAICCA, the Ministry of Digital Affairs, and NEC.
In December 2023, the Taipei studio Moonshine Studio published the work of senior 3D artist Eric Chiang on NVIDIA's "In the NVIDIA Studio" blog. Chiang's NANA virtual receptionist was built using Blender's Cycles RTX OptiX renderer along with Marvelous Designer, Quixel Mixer, Substance 3D Painter, AccuRIG, and Unreal Engine, and ran on an MSI MEG Trident X2 workstation equipped with a GeForce RTX 4090. On Christmas Day, the Taipei agency 真箱娛樂 (known in English as Vverse), led by founder and chairman Hsieh Yu-hsi, staged its 聖誕真香巴士 (Christmas True Fragrance Bus), a five-hour evening event from 17:00 to 21:00 at NT$5,000 per seat, featuring a roster of VTubers including Tu Ji, Wang Gu-tsai, and Ai Si-mei-ya. A few days later, the founding of the Virtual Creator Development Association was announced, with Hsuan Yen-hsing as organizer, former United Microelectronics vice chairman Hsuan Ming-chih as honorary chair, and former NCC chair Chan Ting-yi as advisor. The year closed with a milestone in industry recognition: on December 31 at 22:00, Public Television Service and Ogura Electronics co-hosted the inaugural 金V獎 (Golden V Awards) ceremony, livestreamed on the Hai Yue Lin Lin YouTube channel across five award categories.
The first half of 2024 brought consolidation among the platform players. On January 6, the V-Liver group GanGun Girls — a five-member ensemble comprising Kunashiki Lin, Pina Popuri, Ioda Em, Tsukinari Lux, and Ayasaki Yuu — debuted on YouTube and joined 17LIVE the following day. The new group followed BUSHILIVE, the first 17LIVE V-Liver IP group, which had launched on July 4, 2023, and the production company NexuStella, which had been spun up in December 2023. From March 1 to 3, the Weiwuying performing-arts center in Kaohsiung hosted "Fascination 24 Beethoven," at which the world's first interactive generative-AI Beethoven was unveiled. Three partners delivered the production: NEC Taiwan provided face recognition, BEARVFX built the 3D AI virtual human in Unreal Engine, and Microsoft supplied Azure OpenAI services; the music was performed by the Counterpoint Chamber Orchestra and the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra. On March 13, KFC Taiwan announced "Kala," its AI intern generated from photographs of four hundred KFC Taiwan employees and deployed at the company's Digital Future Store 2.0; the technology came from Hong Kong-based Pantheon Lab under chief executive Ivan Lau, with KFC Taiwan general manager Yvonne Hsieh leading the rollout, and Pantheon Lab issued its formal press release on April 10. Later that month, on March 29, Ubitus K.K. — the Tokyo-based cloud-gaming and AI firm led by chief executive Wesley Kuo — broadcast a nine-hour Minecraft livestream by Ubi-chan, the AI VTuber that had debuted in December 2023 as Taiwan's first entirely AI-driven virtual influencer, powered by Ubitus's UbiGPT model and a retrieval-augmented-generation pipeline. In late June, Springfish Studio — Taiwan's largest VTuber agency — announced on International Olympic Day that it would sponsor the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee for the Paris 2024 Games, assigning VTuber talents as ambassadors for individual sports, with the announcement led by chief executive Chen Shan-ching.
In the second half of 2024, the institutional and military uses of digital-human technology came into clearer view. Between July 22 and 26, the Han Kuang 40 live-troop exercise saw the Ministry of National Defense roll out its first AI virtual news anchor through the Military News Agency, capable of running in eighteen languages and distributed to the public in Mandarin, English, Japanese, and Russian, with on-screen "AI generated" warnings. Originally scheduled for July 25, Gamers Con 2024 opened a day late on July 26 at Taipei World Trade Center Hall 1 due to Typhoon Gaemi; on the morning of the opening, the Taiwan Game Industry Promotion Association — chaired by Liu Hsin — and the Taiwan VTuber Association co-hosted "Crossover Dialogue Between Virtual and Real: VTubers, Illustrators, and Cosplayers," featuring Japan's Dr. Chiwa. In late August, AWE Asia 2024 in Singapore drew the XR EXPRESS TW delegation under the advisement of the National Development Council and execution of TAVAR, with four startups — TianYen, LightGen, Barking Dog Technology, and MomentX — taking the stage; MomentX, led by chief executive James Jin-Wei Lee, presented its software-as-a-service offering for virtual humans and VTubers. On September 1, Reporter's Day, Public Television Service published a set of AI use guidelines and convened an AI Innovation Application Task Force; PTS had earlier launched its AI assistant "P-Shuai" in June on the program 新聞全球話. On October 25, Reallusion (甲尚科技) hosted the 2024 Digital Creation virtual-creator showcase, with chief executive Chen Chiu-cheng joined by partners HP, Genvis, Shen Yi Education, and IDIS, and the motion-capture firm Noitom.
Sanlih's affiliate 創造智能 (Create Intelligens), established in 2022 under director Wu Jung-pin and general manager Lin Hui-chen, advanced its "growable AI trainee" Aikka through the year. First introduced on Sanlih's variety program 完全娛樂 in 2023, Aikka 2.0 was deployed in 2024 for Olympic broadcasting and as the promotional ambassador for Foxconn's drama Q18: Quantum Prophecy, with Amazon Web Services providing the underlying infrastructure. In November, Ubitus announced that its UbiONE platform — built on a Traditional Chinese large language model — had been selected for the MODA Administration for Digital Industries' DIGITAL+ Cloud Service Research and Development Subsidy for the 2024 fiscal year, with deployments including Ubi-chan, the YesBear character at Ningxia Night Market, and a "Tai Ying Hui" persona developed with National University of Tainan. Around the same time, Hsinchu's National Taiwan University Hospital partnered with Microsoft Taiwan to launch the iSee generative-AI smart health-education platform after roughly a year of research and development; the closed generative-AI architecture used vetted patient-education content, with Microsoft Taiwan public-sector general manager Chen Shou-cheng and Hsinchu Branch Smart Healthcare Innovation Center deputy director Teng Meng-lan among the leadership.
On November 25, 17LIVE Group filed with the Singapore Exchange to disclose its acquisition of the Tokyo-based mikai Inc., parent of the VTuber agency Re:AcT. Founded in August 2016 by Uemura Takahiro, mikai had launched Re:AcT in July 2018, and at the time of the deal the agency's most prominent talents — including Shishigami Leona with more than 330,000 subscribers and Hanahasami Kyou with more than 320,000 — anchored a roster of thirteen VTubers under a "platform plus IP" model that 17LIVE called its Forward Strategy. On December 6, Chang Jung Christian University's College of Information and Design and the Taiwan VTuber Association co-hosted the sixth Virtual Influencer Design Competition at the Tainan campus on the theme "Virtual Spokespersons for Taiwan's 368 Towns and Districts," with 218 entries narrowed to seven finalists. The gold prize went to Wang Chang-fei for "Sakasato," silver to Tai Yu-fan for "Dadaocheng Girl Daolingg," and bronze to Chin Pei-chen for "White Platinum Dragon." Three days later, on December 9, Public Television Service formalized a memorandum with the Industrial Technology Research Institute to develop an AI Virtual Sign-Language Weather Anchor for the second half of 2025, paired with cooperation with Japan's NHK on a Taiwan Sign Language version of the AI sign anchor "KIKI" for the 2025 Tokyo Deaflympics.
A signal moment for the integration of digital humans into mainstream Taiwanese entertainment came on January 12, 2025, when Inventec — listed in Taipei as 2356 — staged its 50th-anniversary annual gala at the Taipei Arena. The virtual artist Mila Mii (米拉蜜) performed four songs, including 〈相愛相殺〉, which incorporated traditional gezai opera elements, the up-tempo 〈帥哥粉碎機〉, the ballad 〈痊癒〉, and 〈你在我心上〉, performed as a tribute to the late singer Coco Lee. The character had been created by music producer Chen Tzu-hung of Enjoy Music together with Inventec's Metaverse Technology Department under Chiu Chuan-cheng and Lin Chao-liang, using the in-house "VRSTATE" platform layered on Unreal Engine; TAICCA coordinated the project, costumes were designed by the knitwear designer Pan Yi-Liang in collaboration with the Fu Jen Catholic University Department of Textiles and Clothing, and the project budget exceeded NT$10 million. Mila had previously made her online debut on November 5, 2024.
In late February and early March 2025, 17LIVE published its 2024 fiscal-year results, reporting that V-Liver revenue had surged 121 percent year over year to US$11 million, driven by the Japanese market and the IP strategy, while the AI Co-Host product was confirmed for full launch in the first half of 2025, building on the AI Assistant introduced in November 2024. From March 18 to 21, Pantheon Lab demonstrated its enhanced Metahuman Interface with emotional intelligence at NVIDIA GTC 2025 in San Jose, citing customers including Toyota, KFC Taiwan, the Hong Kong Airport Authority, SBS Transit Singapore, and the National Gallery Singapore. On March 25, the Tainan Art Museum opened its summer flagship exhibition "Formosa Era: Knowledge Enlightenment of Modern Taiwanese Art," curated by Pai Shih-ming and running through July 6, with digital and AI components including style-transfer treatments of works by Shen Che-tsai, Tsai Tsao-ju, Lin Chih-hsin, and Liu Chi-hsiang, alongside a holographic projection of the painting 清流. The next day, March 26, HTC Medical VR signed a memorandum of understanding with Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital and Tzu Chi University to build a generative-AI virtual-patient database and an AI virtual-patient lesson-plan platform, with twenty-two case scenarios spanning more than ten specialties; signatories included Wu Pin-an, vice president of Hualien Tzu Chi, Chen Tsung-ying, vice president of Tzu Chi University and Hospital, and Pao Yung-che, senior vice president of HTC.
The middle of April brought Taiwan's first dedicated VTuber expo. Held April 12 and 13 at the Taipei Expo Park 花博爭艷館, the 2025 TVexpo gathered more than forty Taiwan VTubers across booths, livestreams, and fan meet-ups, with content projected through an Epson EB-PU1008W onto a 150-inch screen and tickets priced from NT$250. On April 21, the Ministry of Health and Welfare's Responsible AI Execution Center, which had launched its hospital-subsidy program with the Industrial Technology Research Institute the previous September, presented the inaugural results from ten participating hospitals; among them, Mackay Memorial introduced AI tablet drug recognition, Pei-yi Hospital deployed generative AI for nursing records, and Tri-Service General Hospital used an AI-ECG system. Soochow University opened its Smart Innovation AI Learning Center on April 30 at the Waishuangxi campus under the College of Big Data, equipping the space with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series desktops to support more than ten courses on AI virtual humans and VR metaverse applications, with university president Chan Chien-lung and NVIDIA's Chu Yi-wei presiding.
Through May, the calendar accelerated. From May 10 to June 10, Springfish Studio partnered with pixiv on its 2025 illustration competition under the dual themes of "Idol" and "Summer," opened to its fourteen talents and judged by a panel that included Capcom and Nijisanji EN illustrators. On May 12, International Nurses Day, Mackay Memorial Hospital announced its AI virtual-human nursing-training program, structured around sixteen scenario topics and seven evaluation dimensions on a competency-based medical-education foundation, with HTC technology powering the dialogue and director of nursing Tsai Jung-mei, head of medical education Lee Chao-hsiung, and nursing supervisor Lee Yu-hsia leading the rollout. At the COMPUTEX 2025 keynote on May 19, NVIDIA chief executive Jensen Huang announced three programs of immediate relevance to the digital-human field: Newton, a GPU-accelerated differentiable physics engine co-built with Google DeepMind and Disney Research and integrated into MuJoCo and Isaac Sim, which would be open-sourced in July; Project R2X, a desktop digital-human and AI assistant interface with drag-and-drop file processing; and a partnership between Inworld AI and Streamlabs to deliver an AI streaming co-host with sidekick, producer, and technical-assistant modes. During the COMPUTEX run from May 20 to 23 at Nangang, Inventec exhibited Mila Mii performing live across all four days, powered by NVIDIA Audio2Face-3D, alongside its Artemis II GB300 NVL72 rack and a gastrointestinal-cancer AI integrated with NVIDIA IGX/Holoscan. At NVIDIA GTC Taipei 2025, held concurrently from May 21 to 23, Ubitus K.K. and Mackay Memorial Hospital presented "AI-Enabled Healthcare: Multi-Modal Robot Collaboration," unveiling three co-developed robots that draw on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, Omniverse, Isaac GR00T, ACE, and Jetson AGX Orin; Mackay disclosed it was piloting a virtual-human digital character on emergency-department screens for triage Q&A, patient companionship, and data collection, with president Chang Wen-han and vice president Chen Yu-jen describing the deployment as Taiwan's first hospital adoption of NVIDIA's B200 platform.
The summer continued at this pace. From June 26 to 28, the eleventh AI Taiwan Future Commerce Expo, organized by BusinessNext, occupied Yuanshan with more than 250 booths across six zones under the theme "AI in Action," with APMIC, ChoozMo, and other Taiwan virtual-human vendors among the exhibitors. At the 2025 Golden Melody Festival in Taipei, the opening pitching session "Creating the Artist of the Future: An AI × Metaverse Innovation Lab" again featured Mila Mii, with Inventec senior vice president Chaucer Chiu and Enjoy Record chief executive Chen Tzu-hung discussing virtual-idol ethics and intellectual-property models. In July, TAICCA confirmed that Taiwan's first VTuber-led album — Universal Music's collaboration with Springfish Studio on 極深空計畫 — had been released, building on Springfish's 2023 launches with SET News and the Taoyuan Iron Rose Music Festival, and announced that Springfish had joined the fourth cohort of the TAICCA Cultural Content Accelerator.
On August 12, 17LIVE released its first-half 2025 results, recording its first sequential revenue increase since the December 2023 SGX listing, with second-quarter revenue of US$41.0 million up from US$40.1 million in the first quarter, V-Liver revenue rising 16.7 percent year over year to US$5.6 million, net cash of US$82.2 million, and an inaugural dividend of 1.5 Singapore cents per share. Two days later, HTC unveiled the VIVE Eagle smart glasses, billed as the world's first AI smart glasses with full Traditional Chinese support, offering privacy-first local storage, multi-AI provider compatibility with Gemini and ChatGPT, and real-time translation, priced at US$520 or NT$15,600. On August 27, Reallusion launched Character Creator 5, introducing high-definition character bases with up to sixteen times the mesh detail of previous versions, the ActorMIXER non-destructive blending tool that can combine up to six characters, HD facial profiles, MetaHuman Animator compatibility, and updated plugins for Maya, Marmoset, Blender, Unreal Engine, and ZBrush, with a perpetual license at US$299 alongside an iClone 8.6 update for HD support.
Autumn 2025 saw the educational sector and the cultural-industry policy framework converge. In September, the K–12 textbook publisher Nan-i Book Company opened recruitment for its second-generation VTubers under the call sign "CROW," following the October 2024 debuts of its first-generation pair Gantang Yamei-na and Hai-se Shui-jing — the first VTubers featured at Taiwan's official Education Technology Expo in November 2024 — with a Minecraft concert held in July 2025 to mark the half-anniversary. On September 12, HTC VIVE ORIGINALS brought VTuber concert experiences to the Taipei FF comic expo using the VIVE XR Elite headset, including a single VR concert "Illusionary" by Nemesis and Earendel and one-on-one VR meet-and-greets with Lutralutra and Pin Yu, supported by hand tracking and special-effects pipelines. From October 10 to 26, the 2025 Taiwan Technology x Culture Expo, co-hosted by the Ministry of Culture and the Kaohsiung City Government at the Pier-2 Art Center, ran on the theme "AI Synergy for the Next Content Economy," with an international conference on October 22 and 23 gathering twelve experts from Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, and the United States. Culture Minister Lee Yuan emphasized "the three I's: AI, IP, and Innovation," and MODA vice minister Hou Yi-hsiu attended; TAICCA's INNOVATIONS Cultural-Tech Exchange exhibited seventy-two original Taiwanese works, while an industry track on AI-driven virtual production featured HTC VIVE ORIGINALS, the simulator-ride manufacturer Brogent, Wētā FX chief executive Daniel Seah, Meta researcher Ma Wan-chun, and Dreamworks.
On October 29, Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an confirmed that NVIDIA's new Taiwan headquarters — the project known as "NVIDIA Constellation" — would be sited on the T17 and T18 plots within the Beitou-Shilin Technology Park, with Shin Kong Life Insurance relinquishing its surface rights against termination compensation of approximately NT$3.64 billion and a formal contract targeted for mid-2026. The complex is intended to house engineers working on NVIDIA ACE, Audio2Face-3D, Omniverse, and Isaac. From December 4 to 7, the Taiwan Healthcare+ Expo saw Ubitus K.K. and Mackay Memorial demonstrate the production deployments of their AI healthcare applications, including autonomous mobile robots with virtual assistants, logistics and safety-inspection robots, and the emergency-department virtual-human pilot now handling navigation, registration, companionship, and multilingual question-and-answer functions. On December 8, the MODA Administration for Digital Industries, together with the Institute for Information Industry and IDC, released Taiwan's first government-backed Generative AI IT Services Implementation Guideline at the National Taiwan University Hospital International Convention Center, positioning the Taiwanese IT-services sector to deploy generative AI — including virtual humans — across manufacturing, finance, and healthcare.
The early months of 2026 confirmed that the industry had reached an industrial-scale phase. In January, Reallusion introduced subscription plans alongside its perpetual licenses, pricing iClone 365 at US$59 per month or US$199 per year, Character Creator 365 at US$29 per month or US$99 per year, and the Reallusion 3D Suite 365 at US$129 per month or US$599 per year, while moving the AccuPose Infinity product in the opposite direction by switching it from subscription to a US$149 perpetual license, with previous subscribers receiving the perpetual entitlement. From January 29 to February 1, Taipei Game Show 2026 occupied Nangang Hall 1 with 399 exhibitors from twenty-six countries; the show inaugurated a partnership with Twitch on a creators' lounge for livestreamers and VTubers, featured a dedicated platformer game starring Hololive's Shirakami Fubuki, and explicitly included AI applications in its B2B zone, alongside the concurrent Asia Pacific Game Summit. On February 26, 17LIVE Group reported its full-year 2025 results, returning to net profit in the second half with US$3.7 million in profit after tax, declaring a final dividend of 0.5 Singapore cents per share, and confirming both the 100 percent acquisition of N Craft and a stake increase in mikai Inc. to 83.5 percent, with the remaining acquisition obligation terminated in 2025 against a US$414,000 gain in other reserves.
On March 7, Public Television Service launched its third-generation VTuber, Yu Yeh Nan Chi, with a debut livestream at 20:00 on the official 宮氏海水浴場 YouTube channel; the lineage now spans from the first-generation Xiao Mei (active 2021 to July 2023) through the second-generation Hai Yue Lin Lin (debut October 3, 2023) to the present, and the third-generation selection drew more than two hundred applicants. Around this period, BEARVFX deployed an AI virtual pharmacist at the Ever Rich (昇恆昌) duty-free shop in Taoyuan Airport Terminal 2, integrating pulse-sensing for personalized health-supplement recommendations in multiple languages with twenty-four-hour availability, achieving roughly 99 percent face-recognition accuracy and a three-second response time; following its showcase at Tokyo's XR Kaigi — which presented a Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an AI virtual human alongside cross-industry deployments for restaurants, healthcare, museums, banks, and retail — BEARVFX announced plans to establish a Japan subsidiary. APMIC, meanwhile, was named an NVIDIA strategic partner during Jensen Huang's COMPUTEX keynotes in both 2024 and 2025, and its PrivAI, CaiGunn, and S1 fine-tuning offerings were deployed across more than 1,100 Taiwanese enterprises and government bodies, including Taiwan NTT, Formosa Biomedical, Taishin Bank — which signed for credit-card AI virtual-banker integration with Taishin's Rose virtual employee — Taipei City Government, and the Industrial Technology Research Institute; the company had closed a US$1 million Pre-A round in 2024. The MODA AI ONE platform's "GenAI Stars" Generative AI 100-Industries Application Contest continued to provide deepening guidance to AI-avatar and virtual-human startups, paired with energy-registration certification for AI vendors. On April 21, 2026, the COMPUTEX organizers confirmed that the show's 2026 edition would again feature an NVIDIA keynote on the latest AI innovations, with forum registration breaking previous records — closing the chronicled period on the same axis around which Taiwan's digital-human ecosystem had pivoted only a few years earlier.
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