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Chengdu Mingtu Technology Co., Ltd. (成都明途科技有限公司) is a privately held AI company established on 11 July 2014 in Chengdu's Tianfu New Area, with legal representative Xiao Xuesong (肖雪松), who also serves as chairman and general manager. Business registry sources list its registered capital as RMB 30 million and paid-in capital as RMB 14.335 million, with 94 insured employees recorded as of 2024; these figures are database-reported registry snapshots rather than audited disclosures. Mingtu holds national Specialized and New "Little Giant" enterprise status, having earlier been recognised as a Sichuan Province gazelle enterprise in 2020 and a Sichuan Province Specialized and New SME in 2021. The designation of "national high-tech enterprise," widely repeated in exhibition profiles, is not consistently traceable to a single authoritative public register and should be treated as a reported claim unless confirmed from the issuing authority.
WorkChat, Mingtu's dialogue-style work digital human platform, was formally launched on 31 May 2023. In November 2023, Mingtu jointly released WorkBrain vertical large model V3.0 with the Chengdu Smart Computing Center, positioning the product around AI digital humans for government and enterprise data-driven transformation. That event was held as part of the 2023 Chengdu Information Sector New Products Launch, with the main release on 14 November. WorkBrain V5.0 was subsequently launched at the "Kechuang Tianfu · Zhihui Rongcheng" event, which the original listing dates to March 2025. In 2025 Mingtu also released WorkBrain V5.5 as part of its inaugural "1010 Digital Human Festival." Descriptions of WorkBrain's architecture and performance are primarily presented through partner ecosystem announcements and company-facing narratives rather than independently reproducible evaluations and should be read as vendor claims.
Mingtu joined Huawei's Ascend 10,000-mile partner programme in 2022 and, with the Chengdu Smart Computing Center's assistance, completed software and hardware optimisation testing for the WorkBrain model on Ascend hardware and the MindSpore framework. The original listing placed Huawei's Ascend "native" certification announcement in July 2024; this specific date cannot be confirmed from available sources, which refer to an ongoing partnership rather than a single July 2024 announcement. Pilot or rollout examples cited in partner materials include State Grid, Chengdu's Kechuang Ecological Island, Sichuan Guangyuan cultural tourism, and the Zigong International Dinosaur Lantern Festival; these should be understood as partner-described implementations rather than verified enterprise-wide deployments.
In October 2024, WorkBrain was designated one of Chengdu's ten inaugural key industry vertical large models. Regarding regulatory status, Mingtu passed a National Cyberspace Administration algorithm filing in 2024, covering work digital human dialogue generation applications. The generative AI service registration for MT-WorkGPT is described in company-facing materials and treated as confirmed by those sources. Claims about a nationwide footprint of three R&D centres, five marketing regions, seven branches, 800-plus partners, and 2,000-plus government and enterprise clients appear in company and promotional profiles and are not readily verifiable through primary filings; they should be treated as company claims rather than confirmed facts.
Mingtu has co-established an AI digital human joint laboratory with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, and the joint team placed first in the Chinese mathematics track of the AAAI 2024 Global Competition on Math Problem Solving and Reasoning. Within the digital human scope, Mingtu's offerings are best characterised as AI-driven virtual human interfaces for role-based interaction over organisational knowledge bases and workflows, positioned for private-data deployment in domains such as public-service consultation, enterprise operations support, venue and exhibition guidance, and sectoral information services.
The company's main corporate website is mingto.net; workhi.cn serves as the product-facing site for the WorkChat platform.
The aiplus.mingto.net platform is Mingtu Technology's self-service digital human creation tool aimed at government and enterprise users, allowing organisations to build their own AI digital human in four steps: creating a digital human with a name and description, feeding it knowledge by uploading documents in formats such as PDF, DOC, and TXT, selecting a metaverse display scene template, and then sharing the finished digital human across multiple device types. The platform supports knowledge management, AI writing, metaverse showroom generation, digital human IP creation, multimodal content generation, and multi-terminal interaction, with use case verticals spanning enterprise, government, health, education, and cultural tourism.
Company name variation, English:
Chengdu Mingtu Technology Co., Ltd. — full legal name, preferred on first mention.
Mingtu Technology — standard short form, appropriate for subsequent references.
Chengdu Mingtu Technology — city-prefixed short form used when geographic specificity is needed.
Mingtu Tech — informal abbreviation appearing in news and promotional contexts.
Mintu Technology — typo variant with the "g" dropped from "Ming," should be corrected wherever it appears.
Mingtujoke Technology — garbled error variant produced by faulty OCR, poor machine translation, or autocorrect corrupting 科技 (kējì, "technology") into "joke".
Company name variations, Chinese:
成都明途科技有限公司 — full legal registered name, preferred on first mention.
明途科技 — standard short form, the most commonly used variant in press and industry coverage.
明途 — minimal informal short form appearing in some promotional and internal-facing materials.