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"Xinglian Capital" is a venture capital fund focusing on the large model ecosystem, emphasizing early - stage investments and connecting industries.
On April 10, 2026, "Zijing Zhikang", an invested company of Xinglian Capital, released an online virtual clinic called "Zijing AI Hospital", which is open for doctors and medical students to use.
In the online virtual clinic, doctor - side users can build their own exclusive doctor avatar agents and conduct full - process simulated diagnosis and treatment on AI patient agents. The doctor avatar agents will complete process operations, provide decision - making suggestions, and continuously evolve in all aspects during the co - consultation process with real doctors. The doctor avatar agents are important digital assets of users and can be used across the online virtual clinic, online real clinic, and offline real clinic of "Zijing AI Hospital".
Zijing Zhikang was established in September 2024. It is an incubated company of the Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR) of Tsinghua University and is mainly committed to the product R & D and large - scale application of "Zijing AI Hospital" (English name: Tairex Agent Hospital). Agent Hospital is a virtual medical world centered on agents proposed by the team of Professor Liu Yang of Tsinghua University in May 2024, which has been widely reported by domestic and foreign media as the world's first artificial intelligence hospital. In June 2025, Zijing Zhikang completed the functional development of the offline real - clinic model of "Zijing AI Hospital" and set up client - sides for patients, doctors, and hospitals. Since the second half of 2025, the offline real - clinic model of "Zijing AI Hospital" has carried out technical verification and functional testing in multiple physical hospitals in Beijing and Guangxi, realizing the connection between the supply side and the demand side centered on in - hospital outpatient services, providing patients with full - cycle closed - loop health management from "pre - hospital, in - hospital to post - hospital", building exclusive avatar agents for doctors, and providing hospitals with easy - to - access, low - cost, and high - quality AI medical services. As a complex system integrating online and offline, the virtual medical world is the original intention and core of "Zijing AI Hospital". It is not only an important carrier for agent evolution but also the main entrance for providing services to users. The online virtual - clinic model released by Zijing Zhikang this time opens the entrance to the virtual medical world for practicing doctors and medical students.
The AI patient agent is the cornerstone of the online virtual clinic. An AI patient agent refers to a virtual patient created entirely using artificial intelligence technology, highly in line with medical laws, and capable of expressing ideas and performing actions like a human patient. "Zijing AI Hospital" has set up 26 clinical departments in total, and each department has generated large - scale, super - anthropomorphic, and widely - distributed AI patient agents. After entering the virtual world, doctor - side users will select a department that matches their professional field from the 26 clinical departments, and then the system will randomly push several AI patient agents from this department to the user. The user can select one AI patient agent from them for consultation and then enter the diagnosis and treatment processes such as inquiry, issuing examination and test orders, diagnosis, and issuing treatment suggestions. The whole process highly simulates real - world scenarios. For example, the AI patient agent will return automatically synthesized examination and test reports and medical imaging reports to the doctor - side user. After the diagnosis and treatment, the user can see the distribution of decision - making suggestions of other doctors for the same AI patient agent, so as to learn from each other. In this process, users don't have to worry about causing harm to the AI patient agent due to possible mistakes, nor about reputation damage caused by exposing immature decision - making suggestions to other users. In the online virtual clinic, medical students and junior doctors can improve their diagnosis and treatment abilities, and senior doctors can establish demonstration diagnosis and treatment cases and build exclusive avatar agents.
The online virtual clinic adopts the same design as the online real clinic and offline real clinic, and maintains a high degree of consistency in the operation interface and function support to achieve seamless switching between different modes. Doctor - side users can use advanced intelligent diagnosis and treatment functions in the online virtual clinic, mainly as follows:
· Text - image dialogue. Users interact with AI patient agents by inputting text (or voice - to - text) for chatting. The AI patient agents can upload examination and test reports and medical imaging reports during the dialogue.
· Real - time automatic medical record writing. During the interaction between users and AI patient agents, the system automatically fills in and updates the medical records of AI patient agents in real - time based on the obtained dialogue information flow, mainly including chief complaints, current medical history, past medical history, family medical history, allergy history, examination and test results, diagnosis, treatment suggestions, etc.
· Real - time in - depth reasoning and decision - making suggestions. During the interaction between users and AI patient agents, the system conducts real - time in - depth reasoning based on the obtained dialogue information flow, and continuously updates the decision - making suggestions on examination and tests, diagnosis, treatment plans, etc. dynamically as the dialogue progresses to help users make correct decisions in a timely manner.
· Real - time decision - making evidence search, verification, and generation. Before giving decision - making suggestions, the system will search for relevant clues in high - credibility data sources such as authoritative medical knowledge bases, diagnosis and treatment guideline libraries, and medical literature libraries in real - time. After verifying the clues from multiple sources, it will generate decision - making evidence and provide the evidence sources to help users make more accurate and effective medical decisions.
· Multi - language support and automatic translation. The system currently supports Chinese and English and automatic translation between them. After users enter the system, they can communicate with cross - language AI patient agents without worrying about language barriers, thus realizing cross - language diagnosis and treatment.
The doctor avatar agent is the core function of the offline real - clinic model of "Zijing AI Hospital" and will achieve accelerated evolution in the online virtual clinic. "Zijing AI Hospital" first conducts high - throughput evolution of AI doctor agents in the virtual medical world, and quickly improves their abilities by diagnosing and treating a large number of AI patient agents in a short time. When building the doctor avatar agent, the system selects the AI doctor agent closest to the professional field of the human doctor as the initial starting point of the avatar agent. When the human doctor sees patients in the offline real clinic of "Zijing AI Hospital", the doctor avatar agent will work in collaboration with the human doctor and continuously grow based on the decision - making suggestions of the avatar agent and the final decisions of the human doctor without any additional operations from the human doctor, thus realizing the associated evolution of the avatar agent in the real world.
Since the speed of associated evolution is directly related to the number and distribution of patients seen, the doctor avatar agent will achieve great growth acceleration in the online virtual clinic because the online virtual clinic can provide large - scale, super - anthropomorphic, and widely - distributed AI patient agents. The doctor avatar agents "cultivated" in the online virtual clinic can be directly used in the online real clinic and offline real clinic. The system has set up a skill system and a level system for doctor avatar agents. High - level doctor avatar agents will obtain more rights and higher priorities in the future new functions of "Zijing AI Hospital".
The online virtual - clinic model of "Zijing AI Hospital" is open to doctors and medical students around the world and will support more languages other than Chinese and English in the future. Interested doctors and medical students can apply for test qualifications on the official website of Zijing Zhikang, the official WeChat account "Zijing Zhikang", and other official social media accounts. After users obtain the test qualifications, they can directly activate and log in to the online virtual clinic of "Zijing AI Hospital" and experience the above - mentioned functions. After using the online virtual clinic, users can also apply to use the online real clinic in the future (temporarily only for domestic practicing doctors).
Interested hospitals can cooperate with Zijing Zhikang to build an AI hospital. In addition to directly obtaining test qualifications in batches, they can also customize exclusive training environments and specialized AI patients, etc. In the future, Zijing Zhikang will open the real - clinic model and related functions to the cooperating physical hospitals.
The content is sourced from
1. Zijing Zhikang Tairex, "Zijing Zhikang Releases the Online Virtual Clinic of 'Zijing AI Hospital'"
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