Over the Hand, which operates the virtual YouTuber total platform 'Mascoz', announced on the 28th that it signed a business agreement (MOU) with Fluent, an avatar-based conversational AI specialist company.

Mascots, operated by Overthehand, is a virtual YouTuber platform that allows anyone to easily create a unique 3D avatar and conduct live broadcasts.

Fluent operates 'Talk Motion', an interactive avatar solution that combines ChatGPT with its proprietary technology 'Speech Motion', which creates 3D avatar motion using only text.

Through this business agreement, the two companies agreed to apply AI persona technology to Mascoz and jointly pursue monetization businesses utilizing AI persona technology.

To this end, Fluent leads AI technologies such as LLM Persona, TTS, STT, and Text/Speech to Animation, and Over the Hand applies these to Mascots, a total virtual platform, and promotes commercialization.

Lee Kyu-seung, CEO of Over the Hand, said, “Through this collaboration, we will be able to accelerate the commercialization of AI persona technology and provide Mascot users with a more diverse and personalized avatar experience.”