Tencent is discreetly carrying out internal trials for an AI-powered digital human gaming companion product dubbed “E Ciyuan.” This innovative offering boasts multimodal interaction capabilities, presenting users with a diverse array of virtual characters, each embodying a unique personality. The product supports a variety of functions, including desktop pets, wallpaper creation, casual daily conversations, and real-time companionship within popular online games. Rather than emphasizing performance, the product is designed to be a companion-centric solution. It addresses prevalent issues in the traditional human-based gaming companion market and incorporates a pre-established commercialization model for pay-per-use access. At present, the product is still in the process of verifying the stability of complex in-game visual recognition and working to prevent homogenization in long-term interaction scripts. This initiative underscores Tencent's commitment to accelerating the integration of multimodal AI into core gaming interaction scenarios, with the goal of reshaping the vertical companionship ecosystem through a cost-effective, standardized digital human solution.