{"id":200775,"date":"2024-12-04T16:25:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T22:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/simulated-ai-pets-gain-popularity-among-chinese-consumers"},"modified":"2024-12-04T16:25:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T22:25:15","slug":"simulated-ai-pets-gain-popularity-among-chinese-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/simulated-ai-pets-gain-popularity-among-chinese-consumers","title":{"rendered":"Simulated AI pets gain popularity among Chinese consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/simulated-ai-pets-gain-popularity-among-chinese-consumers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boosted by China\u2019s rapid development pace in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, more companies have noted the huge business potential in AI companionship sectors, as simulated AI pets with adorable appearances gaining increasing popularity among Chinese consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang Yi, CEO of the iiMedia Research Institute, told the Global Times on Sunday that consumers\u2019 demand for emotional support and the capability of current AI technologies offer this type of products greater business potential.<\/p>\n<p>A Beijing-based student in her 20\u2019s surnamed Zhang, who is also an AI technology fan, told the Global Times on Sunday that she bought \u201cBoo Boo,\u201d a simulated AI robotic pet developed by Hangzhou-based Genmoor Technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boosted by China\u2019s rapid development pace in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, more companies have noted the huge business potential in AI companionship sectors, as simulated AI pets with adorable appearances gaining increasing popularity among Chinese consumers. Zhang Yi, CEO of the iiMedia Research Institute, told the Global Times on Sunday that consumers\u2019 demand for emotional [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}