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Jisi Technology (北京广益集思智能科技有限公司) is a Beijing-based AI company and a recognized pioneer in the digital human livestream commerce space. Founded with a focus on the booming e-commerce live-shopping market, the company began developing its digital human technology in late 2021, identifying early on that AI-powered virtual hosts could meet the massive and largely unmet demand in the livestream retail sector. Their core product enables brands to create a fully operational AI digital human host — cloned from a real person's video and voice — and deploy it in a live broadcast in as little as two hours, dramatically lowering the cost and logistical burden of round-the-clock livestream selling. The technology has since achieved significant commercial scale, serving over 400 top-tier brands, generating more than 3 billion yuan in sales, and accumulating over one million hours of AI livestream time. Headquartered in Beijing's National Innovation Park within the Economic and Technological Development Zone, Jisi Technology is regarded as a flagship example of AI application development in China, with its "digital human" platform positioned at the intersection of large language models and data-driven commerce — making it one of the more mature and commercially validated players in the still-nascent global digital human industry.
Company name variations, English:
Johnsmith.ai — their primary brand name
Johnsmith — short form (used in website: johnsmith.cn)
Jisi Technology — direct pinyin transliteration
集思科技 (Johnsmith.ai) — combined Chinese/English form used in official communications
Company name variations, Chinese:
北京广益集思智能科技有限公司 — full official registered company name
集思科技 — primary short/trade name
Johnsmith.ai集思科技 — full branded name used in official communications
集思智能科技 — abbreviated form of the registered name