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Fengping Intelligent (风平智能), operating under Beijing Fengping Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., is a Chinese digital human vendor positioned primarily in the short-video and live-streaming segments of the domestic AIGC market. The company's core offering is a photorealistic, AI-generated digital human built on deep neural network large-model technology, capable of producing a 1:1 clone of a real person from as little as three minutes of reference video, with full delivery in three to five days; the resulting figure reproduces facial micro-expressions, lip sync, and body movement, and can be driven by text or voice input with support for over a hundred AI voice options as well as real-person voice cloning. Fengping also supports the creation of entirely synthetic IP characters with no real-world counterpart, ensuring uniqueness and IP stability. Its IP Intelligent Manufacturing Platform claims a 90% cost reduction and 500% efficiency gain over mainstream alternatives, bringing production costs into the low thousands of yuan, and a newer product line marketed as the "Lingdong" (灵动) digital human advances the paradigm further through single-image-driven generation. The company serves both consumer and enterprise clients across use cases including short-video content production, livestreaming commerce, digital employees, digital customer service, and real-time interactive applications, and has established marketplace presence on both Baidu AI Market and Tencent Cloud, with additional cross-border e-commerce applications demonstrated through Alibaba International.