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AI Boyfriends Make Chinese Gaming Entrepreneur a Billionaire
Shanghai-based Paper Games' game Love and Deepspace is a hit based on virtual boyfriends generated by AI.
Available in Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean, the mobile title has become so popular that, according to Forbes estimates, Paper Games’s 37-year-old founder Yao Runhao now has a fortune of $1.3 billion based on his majority stake in the company. Apple once discussed plans to introduce such games to its Vision Pro device when CEO Tim Cook visited the company’s Shanghai office last year, according to his post on Chinese social media platform Weibo. But Cui Chenyu, a Shanghai-based senior analyst at research firm Omdia, says by WeChat that Paper Games might have to increase marketing efforts, including holding real-world events to keep players engaged.
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