Top Digital Humans Companies Providing Interactive AI Humans in 2024

Digital humans, also known as AI Humans, Digital People, AI Avatars, and AI Agents, are human-like assistants capable of interacting with users through a Natural User Interface (NUI), primarily the human voice. These AI humans find applications as personal assistants, customer support assistants, sales agents, and help desk assistants across various industries such as Banking & Finance, Telco & Cable, Retail & CPG, Healthcare, HR & Recruitment, Entertainment, and Technology & Software.

These digital human avatars offer numerous benefits, including the always-available delivery of personalized services.

Top AI/Digital Human Start-ups in 2024

This list is alphabetically ordered and comprises startups delivering two-way real-time interactive AI Humans integrated with various AI stacks to facilitate intelligent conversations. For the purpose of this list, a startup is defined as a company with annual revenue of less than $50 million and having been in existence for less than 5 years.

1. AI Humans (AI Wizards): AI Wizards is an AI consulting company delivering custom AI solutions to retail, healthcare, and other industries. Their solutions, such as AI Humans, AI Kiosks, HumanX (an AI interface for ecommerce and online retailers), and AI visual search technology, are based on in-house AI technologies.
2. D-ID: D-ID develops Natural User Interface (NUI) technologies. Their platform transforms various forms of content, including images, text, videos, audio, and voice, into engaging Digital People, providing an immersive experience.
3. Soul Machines: A US-based software development company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Specializing in Artificial Intelligence, Science, Technology, Research, Emotional Intelligence, and Digital Humans, Soul Machines was founded in 2016.
4. Synthesia: Founded in 2017 by a team of AI researchers from UCL, Stanford, TUM, and Cambridge, Synthesia aims to empower everyone to create video content without cameras, microphones, or studios, using AI to change the content creation process.
5. UneeQ: A privately held company founded in 2017 and headquartered in Austin, Texas. UneeQ specializes in Human-looking Digital Humans integrated with various Artificial Intelligence stacks, focusing on delivering digital human experiences in marketing, sales, and service roles.

At the time of writing, Synthesia does not appear to have a two-way real-time talking avatar. AI Humans from Soul Machines, UneeQ, and D-ID use real-time animated video processed on the server and then cast the video to the client, providing a near real-life, superior, and real-time look and feel. AI Wizards animates the AI humans in real-time within the application on the client without processing animation on the server. This distinction makes AI Wizards’ solution cost-effective and easier to deploy on a large scale, such as busy ecommerce websites. When developing your AI application, consider the pros and cons of each solution to determine the best fit.

As an AI consulting company, AI Wizards assists companies in selecting and integrating the right AI solution from any of the above vendors. If you would like to discuss which solution would work best for your application, please set up a meeting with our AI consultants.