Miaoshi Shuts Down: When AI Emotional Companionship Becomes a Big Tech 'Technical Trial and Error'

Miaoshi has shut down. From incubation within NetEase Cloud Music, to its launch in 2023, and finally ceasing operations at midnight on July 14, 2024, this AI emotional companion App lasted less than two years. For someone like me who follows open-source communities and AI application implementation, this case is worth breaking down: it's not just a product failure, but reflects two core contradictions in the current AI emotional companion track—the disconnect between technical implementation and user experience, and the difference in sustainability between closed-source commercial products and open-source community projects.