机器人圈·2026-01-22 09:17Group 1 - The core viewpoint of the article is that Nature Select, an AI companionship company, has successfully completed a new funding round exceeding $30 million, with investments from major firms including Alibaba and Ant Group [1] - Nature Select was founded in February 2024 by Zhang Xiaofan, a serial entrepreneur in the AI companionship sector, who is also the CEO of the game developer Mirage Games [1] - The company's primary product is a female-oriented project called "EVE," which is described as the world's first 3D AI intelligent companionship application, aiming to create deep emotional connections similar to the experience depicted in the movie "Her" [1] Group 2 - Nature Select has introduced a position called "Emotional Interaction Designer" to enhance the emotional intelligence of its AI [1] - The company launched its first emotional large model, Echo-N1, this year, proposing a new emotional model training method and a benchmark specifically designed to measure emotional intelligence, marking the first application of reinforcement learning in the subjective emotional domain [1] - In 2024, Nature Select proposed a long-term memory solution with 128 dynamic memory slots, and by 2025, it enhanced the memory system with a multi-dimensional graph-based retrieval augmented generation (graphRAG) [1]