SHANGHAI, July 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Soul App unveiled its groundbreaking AI-powered social solutions at the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) on July 26. The company showcased its upgraded end-to-end full-duplex voice large language model (LLM) during a live demonstration of its Audio Partyroom feature. An AI host effortlessly moderated group voice chats, highlighting how AI is reshaping content creation and social dynamics to deliver more intelligent, authentic, and immersive emotional experiences.
“In this era where technology is redefining human connection, AI-powered social networks are not just the future—they’re already here,” declared Tao Ming, Chief Technology Officer of Soul App. “We’re pioneering a revolutionary paradigm where AI entities and humans don’t simply interact, but flourish together. Through intelligent connection mapping, contextual understanding, and experience augmentation, Soul is fostering a new dimension of digital belonging—one that delivers genuine joy and transforms our perception of community.”
Toward More Natural AI Interaction: Full-Duplex Voice & Video for Genuine Emotional Connection
As AI applications explode across industries in 2025, a crucial question emerges: What tangible value does AI+ bring to individuals? Soul App, at the forefront of AI social exploration, presented its vision at WAIC 2025, demonstrating social solutions that redefine AI’s role in human connections.
At the “Soul’s AI Social Practice” exhibition, the platform showcased how its full-duplex audio/video capabilities enable hyper-realistic and deeply immersive social experiences. Soul’s AI serves dual roles: a caring companion that analyzes users’ social challenges to provide emotional support, and an efficient connector that identifies mutual interests to foster genuine friendships.
The event marked the debut of Soul’s proprietary end-to-end full-duplex voice model. This innovative system redefines interaction paradigms by eliminating traditional reliance on Voice Activity Detection (VAD) mechanisms and latency control logic. It breaks from the industry’s turn-taking dialogue mode, empowering AI to autonomously determine conversation rhythms.
Social interaction involves exchanging both emotional and informational value. By imbuing AI with autonomy and warmth, Soul enables truly reciprocal social engagement and emotional symbiosis between humans and AI, transcending past transactional turn-based dialogues.
The full-duplex voice model will soon enter beta testing before implementation across various scenarios, including virtual human real-time calls and AI-assisted matching in both one-on-one and group settings. WAIC attendees experienced this technology firsthand through an AI host managing group voice chats on Soul’s platform.
“In multi-user voice interactions, our AI host demonstrates human-like moderation capabilities, naturally engaging participants, energizing conversations, and encouraging discussion—significantly enhancing engagement and experience quality,” said Tao Ming, Soul’s CTO. “Applying full-duplex voice technology to group scenarios represents a crucial step in integrating AI into social networks, enhancing real connections, and enabling diverse experiences.”
Recognizing users’ preference for face-to-face interaction, Soul is advancing multimodal capabilities. The exhibition featured progress in full-duplex real-time video calls, combining audio technology with real-time video generation. This allows users to see the AI’s visual presence and digital environment, creating more dimensional digital personas that deepen relational bonds. This builds on Soul’s recent achievement of having its real-time portrait video generation research accepted by CVPR 2025, a top-tier international academic conference.
Soul Reimagines Social Networking: Building an AI-Powered Playground for Chinese Gen Z
Since its 2016 launch, Soul has led the charge in reinventing social discovery, connection, and relationship-building through AI. The platform empowers users to express themselves freely while forming diverse social networks based on shared interests—exemplified by its Lingxi Engine, the foundation of its current relationship model.
Soul’s AI journey accelerated in 2020 with systematic AIGC R&D, yielding cutting-edge capabilities in intelligent dialogue, voice technology, and 3D digital humans. The 2023 introduction of its proprietary Soul X model marked a turning point, followed by breakthroughs in voice generation, voice calls, and music generation models. By 2024, Soul had consolidated these into a comprehensive multimodal end-to-end AI system supporting text/voice conversations, multilingual understanding, and hyper-realistic digital humans.
The platform’s competitive edge stems from three pillars: in-house R&D, unique public social data assets, and rapid application iteration. As a social networking platform, Soul continuously refines its Emotional Intelligence Model to precisely identify user needs and deliver lasting emotional value through AI.
Soul’s deep market insights—drawn from its user community—directly inform product development. Notably, 18% of new posts on Soul Square address real social challenges such as making friends, starting conversations, and navigating workplace relationships. These authentic user stories and the emotional connections they spark form a valuable social behavior database.
Building on these insights, Soul is deepening AI-community integration by developing content recommendations and AI-assisted creation tools that lower expression barriers. The platform is also cultivating an ecosystem of Virtual Influencers capable of delivering warm, nuanced emotional support—all working in concert to create authentic senses of emotional closeness within digital spaces.
“At its core, our platform operates on a dual approach: facilitating human connections through AI assistance while simultaneously fostering meaningful AI-as-companion relationships,” explained Tao Ming, Soul’s CTO. “True AI integration isn’t just about technology—it’s about weaving genuine emotional connections into the very fabric of users’ social networks. As AI becomes deeply embedded in every aspect of modern interaction—from socializing to digital lifestyles and consumer behavior—it’s giving rise to what we call emotional-value commerce. This evolution isn’t merely creating new market opportunities; it’s fundamentally reimagining the paradigms of social products.”
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