Baidu Introduces Virtual Personality 'Du Xiaoxiao' to Taobao; Customised Virtual Personality Prices at RMB300K

Users can purchase a variety of AI services in the "Du Xiaoxiao's AI House" shop, which is powered by the knowledge-enhanced Large Language Model (LLM) product within the Ernie Bot App. The shop's product prices start from RMB0.01, and the most expensive product is a customised virtual personality product, which promises a permanent warranty, with a special pre-paid deposit price of up to RMB300,000.

AI Service options are also added to the management backstage for Taobao merchants, including AI painting, AI photo generation, AI four-dimensional modelling, and AI voice package.

Du Xiaoxiao is a virtual personality developed by BIDU based on the core technology of Baidu Brain 7.0, which integrated multi-modal interaction technology, 3D digital human modelling, machine translation, speech recognition, natural language understanding and other technologies.

In addition, for the Double 11 this year, Taobao has added AI services as one of the first-level categories, as well as new AI service options.