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ThunderSoft (中科创达) is a Beijing-based intelligent operating system and smart device software company founded in 2008 and listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, with its core business historically centered on OS platforms for mobile, automotive, and IoT devices. Its entry into the digital human space is anchored in the Rubik Avatar product line, which applies the company's on-device intelligence capabilities to interactive digital human applications. The Rubik Avatar solution, showcased at Embedded World in April 2024, uses model compression and on-device inference engine optimization to run digital human interactions directly on edge devices rather than relying on cloud processing, with the stated goal of enabling a wide range of smart terminal form factors. A dedicated hardware offering, the Rubik Avatar AI Digital Human Desktop Naked-eye 3D All-in-One Machine, extends this into a standalone display product. ThunderSoft's approach positions digital humans as one component of a broader on-device AI ecosystem that also includes its AIOS operating system platform, situating the company's digital human work within its established strengths in edge computing and intelligent terminal software rather than as a standalone generative AI or content-production play.
https://www.thundersoft.com/source/en/digital-human.html