{"id":370837,"date":"2026-06-24T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=370837"},"modified":"2026-06-25T03:21:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:21:04","slug":"genshin-impact-developer-mihoyo-quietly-launches-bside-olivia-lin-an-ai-desktop-waifu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/genshin-impact-developer-mihoyo-quietly-launches-bside-olivia-lin-an-ai-desktop-waifu\/","title":{"rendered":"Genshin Impact developer miHoYo quietly launches BSide: Olivia Lin, an AI desktop waifu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">miHoYo, the studio behind <em><a href=\"https:\/\/genshin-impact.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Genshin Impact<\/a><\/em>, has quietly rolled out BSide: Olivia Lin in early access in China. It&#8217;s an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/downloads\/artificial-intelligence-apps\" rel=\"noopener\">AI desktop companion<\/a> that&#8217;s meant to stay with you through the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s also a sizable part of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/the-studio-behind-lies-of-p-sees-ai-as-the-future-of-its-games-and-fans-are-not-responding-well\">miHoYo focused on AI apps and tools<\/a>. That side of the company gets far less attention than its game business, which makes sense given how huge its games are, but it\u2019s clearly not some side experiment. It looks like a real priority, and that tracks with how personally invested miHoYo CEO Cai Haoyu is in AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A very specific kind of AI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BSide: Olivia Lin lets you talk to Olivia Lin, a college student in Shanghai who studies piano and psychology. Her official character description paints a very specific picture: she loves vinyl records and classic movies, likes rainy days, keeps her <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Letterboxd<\/a> list updated, works on refining her record collection, and spends part of her free time on a personal project about &#8220;music and memories.&#8221; <strong>Her official character description paints a very specific picture: she loves vinyl records and classic movies, likes rainy days, keeps her Letterboxd list updated, works on refining her record collection, and spends part of her free time on a personal project about &#8220;music and memories.&#8221;<\/strong> Olivia Lin, of course, isn\u2019t real. She\u2019s an AI character built for people to interact with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">HoYoverse has revealed BSide: Olivia Lin, an AI desktop chat companion coming to Steam.<br><br>Olivia is introduced as a college student from Shanghai who studies piano and psychology. You can listen to her piano performances, upload your own music files, and send her letters that\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V2EBBYuYU1\">pic.twitter.com\/V2EBBYuYU1<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Pirat_Nation \ud83d\udd34 (@Pirat_Nation) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Pirat_Nation\/status\/2069359820248146032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She\u2019s basically a more realistic, more conventionally attractive take on the Lofi Girl type. She answers your prompts as if she\u2019s genuinely interested, listens to whatever you want to tell her, and supplies the background music for your day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The whole setup is built to make Olivia Lin feel like a real person. You can upload your own music for her to play, and you can send her letters that she replies to with letters of her own, all of it pushing toward the same goal: a parasocial bond strong enough to keep the illusion in place.<\/strong> Even then, she\u2019s still just a collection of routines generating replies to whatever you say at that moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BSide: Olivia Lin is out in early access in China, and there\u2019s still no word on a release for the rest of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/genshin-impact-3-0-preview\" rel=\"noopener\">miHoYo has said<\/a> it plans to make BSide: Olivia Lin completely free when it officially launches.Given the company\u2019s history, that strongly points to some form of microtransaction being attached to the experience.<\/strong> That makes the whole premise feel even worse, considering how heavily it leans on parasocial attachment. And with AI, there always seems to be one more problem sitting right underneath the first one.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Steam\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/3047d89c-96d0-11e6-8546-00163ed833e7\/2505233623\/steam-download.jpg\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Steam<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/steam.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DESCARGAR<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/steam.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>miHoYo, the studio behind Genshin Impact, has quietly rolled out BSide: Olivia Lin in early access in China. It&#8217;s an AI desktop companion that&#8217;s meant to stay with you through the day. There\u2019s also a sizable part of miHoYo focused on AI apps and tools. That side of the company gets far less attention than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/genshin-impact-developer-mihoyo-quietly-launches-bside-olivia-lin-an-ai-desktop-waifu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Genshin Impact developer miHoYo quietly launches BSide: Olivia Lin, an AI desktop waifu&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9268,"featured_media":370836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6823],"class_list":["post-370837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370905,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370837\/revisions\/370905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370837"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=370837"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=370837"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=370837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}