KLleon and Hakuhodo DY ONE Form Strategic AI Digital Human Partnership
The partnership pairs a specialized AI digital human developer with a major advertising group's consulting arm, targeting the gap between technological interest and full-scale brand-aligned deployment in the Japanese market.
Reporting from 1 sources: ASCII.jp.
KLleon Inc. has entered a strategic business partnership with Hakuhodo DY ONE to accelerate the introduction of AI digital humans in Japan. The collaboration combines KLleon's real-time conversation and lip-sync technology with Hakuhodo DY ONE's consulting, creativity, and brand design expertise, aiming to produce high-quality AI digital humans that embody corporate brands and promote next-generation customer experience.
KLleon, a Tokyo-based technology company specializing in AI digital humans, has partnered with Hakuhodo DY ONE, the consulting and creative arm of the Hakuhodo DY Group. The deal aims to move AI digital humans from experimental deployments to practical, brand-consistent customer touchpoints across Japan. KLleon brings proprietary real-time lip-sync and video generation technology that enables two-way conversational digital humans with sub-second latency, as well as one-way information-delivery avatars. Hakuhodo DY ONE contributes its Magicx consulting team's experience in AI utilization and brand design. The initiative will operate under the Hakuhodo DY Group's cross-divisional AI expert group, HCAI Professionals.
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- ASCII.jp KLleon、Hakuhodo DY ONEと戦略的業務提携