China unveils first AI child: throws tantrums and speaks like a real child
Published April 7th, 2025 - 06:28 GMT
ALBAWABA - The Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI), an innovative research and development non-profit organization affiliated with Peking University, Tsinghua University, and other leading academic institutions in China, has revealed a groundbreaking AI humanoid child. The AI child behaves like a real 6-year-old, throws tantrums, and can speak and negotiate. China unveiled TongTong 2.0
The Beijing Institute for General Artificial Intelligence (BIGAI) has successfully developed and unveiled the innovative TongTong 2.0, a humanoid artificial intelligence (AI) system that exhibits the abilities and traits of a real 5- to 6-year-old child.TongTong 2.0 was announced and revealed at the 2025 Zhongguancun Forum (ZGC Forum) in Beijing. The innovative humanoid child can negotiate, throw tantrums, speak, and ask to delay tasks, just like a real 5- or 6-year-old boy or girl.
The new TongTong 2.0 highlights significant advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), open-source achievements, and other technological progress made by China.
The new TongTong 2.0 humanoid child can clean toys, wipe stains, take off its shoes, and organize objects. (Shutterstock)
It is worth noting that TongTong was originally introduced in 2024 with simpler capabilities. The new version now advances in its language usage, development, movement, learning, emotions, and overall interactions.
The new TongTong 2.0 humanoid child can clean toys, wipe stains, take off its shoes, and organize objects. Remarkably, when TongTong 2.0 was told to sleep and complete some tasks upon its reveal, it immediately refused and asked for rewards in exchange for finishing the tasks, just like real children do in such cases. Also Read Meet the AI robot from UAE that picks strawberries
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