Mihoyo, creators of Genshin Impact, just launched Olivia - an AI companion who lives on your desktop, plays piano while you work, & exchanges letters with you. 100k downloads on day 1
The brilliant part is the GTM. Olivia debuted on Bilibili last summer as a virtual pianist, spent months building a fanbase and answering fan letters - all before shipping as a companion
She launched with a built-in audience - hundreds of thousands follow her as a Shanghai university student majoring in piano (with a minor in psych), who loves old movies and rainy days
Character-first AI with distinct personality, recognizable IP, and world building beats faceless agents - this is the way
MiHoYo burned through nearly $300,000 worth of AI tokens in just 13 hours during an internal AI experiment.
The story came from Zheng Yinhe, head of the AI NPC speaking at the 2026 Alibaba Cloud Summit.
According to him, an employee set up dozens of AI agents to work together on a project. The agents kept talking to each other, generating outputs, and reviewing each other’s work, causing token usage to skyrocket overnight.
The expensive experiment didn’t pay off. Despite the massive cost, the final results were reportedly full of hallucinations and unusable.
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