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Playhouse Media, founded in 2024 in San Francisco, is an AI entertainment studio that creates original characters, stories and worlds across text, image, voice, sound and video, paired with AI growth agents that research audiences, generate content variants and optimize distribution and monetization.

Artificial Agency, founded in 2023 in Edmonton, Canada, builds an AI behavior engine designed to transform traditional video games into more dynamic experiences by improving non-playable character (NPC) behavior and player interactions.

Monstar (Hefei Monstar Technology) is an AI startup building an interaction-and-perception layer for agents to create 'digital life' for the AGI era. Its Monstar Engine powers a digital-life UGC platform, starting with AI electronic pets for emotional companionship in spatial-computing scenarios. Its core team comes from Tsinghua University's maker-space community. It closed a seed+ round of over RMB 10M in July 2026.

Beijing Xinying Suixing Technology Co., Ltd., founded in 2023 in Beijing, China, develops a self-built hundred-billion-parameter Xinying large model as its core, offering players a cross-platform anime desktop pet AI application.

Kaon AI (formerly FlowGPT), founded in 2023 and headquartered in Berkeley, California, USA, positions itself as an "AI-native content lab." Its flagship consumer product Emochi delivers dynamic multimedia character-driven interactive storytelling, with over 2 million daily active users and an ARR of approximately $45 million.

Oasiz, founded in 2025 in San Francisco, USA, enables users to instantly generate and share multiplayer mini-games that blend social video with interactive gameplay.