Natural Selection raises $30 million; Alibaba and Ant Group invest in AI companion services.

AI companionship company Natural Selection has raised over $30 million in funding, with investors including Alibaba, Ant Group, and Qiming Venture Partners. The company's EVE Online product redefines AI companionship in five dimensions: proactive care, a "human touch" that combines emotional and intellectual intelligence, state-of-the-art long-term memory, highly immersive design, and cross-dimensional lifestyle service intervention.