On July 8, 2026, the 2025 National Science and Technology Award Conference took place in a formal ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The project “Key Technologies and Applications for Intelligent 3D Digital Human Generation,” completed by Faceunity Technology and three partners including Zhejiang University, won second prize in the State Science and Technology Progress Award.

This honor is one of the three major national science and technology awards established by the State Council and represents the highest standard in the field in China. It formally recognizes Faceunity Technology’s achievements in AI digital human innovation through in-house R&D and attests to a decade of sustained work on the industry’s core technical challenges.

The award-winning project researched and developed key technologies and a platform for intelligent 3D digital human generation to address challenges in open environments such as low modeling accuracy, unstable interaction, and slow simulation. It overcame a bottleneck in accurately modeling digital humans from single-view images and pioneered a method for video-driven facial interaction using multistage cascaded regression. It opened a new direction in real-time digital human simulation by combining physics-based and data-driven methods. The project was granted 89 invention patents and obtained 30 software copyrights. Its world-leading technologies have been deployed at scale in smart terminals, smart manufacturing, cultural and creative industries, and other fields. This has helped industrialize 3D digital humans and foster new business models in the digital economy.

Founded in 2016, Faceunity Technology was among the first technology companies worldwide to focus on digital humans. Its full-stack in-house R&D underpins core technology across the digital human pipeline, from modeling and animation to rendering and interaction. The company built AvatarX, a full-range platform covering cartoon, video, simulated, super-realistic, and lifelike digital humans, and developed visual effects products for images and video of people across all use cases. Its complete portfolio spans underlying engines and application-layer software. Its products are deployed at scale in over 20 industries, including mobile phones, automotive, finance, e-commerce, and interactive entertainment, and serve over 4,000 companies in China and abroad. The company continues to lead innovation and industry adoption of advanced AI digital human technology, setting industry benchmarks and maintaining its leadership in the field. Its honors include national designations as a Specialized and Innovative “Little Giant” Enterprise and a High-Tech Enterprise, and recognition as a Zhejiang Rising Technology Enterprise and a municipal quasi-unicorn.

Faceunity Technology’s mission and vision are to “empower humanity with digital beings.” We firmly believe humans, robots, and digital humans will coexist in the future. In the physical world, humans and robots will collaborate. In the digital world, digital humans will interact with and offer companionship to people. Faceunity Technology will keep advancing digital human technology to create digital humans that “look and feel lifelike and combine emotion with intelligence” for industries of all kinds and households everywhere, leading the development of new business models in the digital human industry.