Naver D2SF said on Wednesday it made a new investment in virtual entertainment startup 23rd Century Children. It said the decision reflected the company’s content production capabilities for virtual artists and its in-house technology pipeline, as it expands intellectual property. The startup said it has developed technologies such as real-time motion capture and a workflow that enables rapid production with fewer staff. It is developing its own IP, including virtual boy group WEGO6.

Naver D2SF said on May 19 it made a new investment in Clonlabs, an AI startup developing a “user model” to address fatigue from using AI agents. The deal came about three months after D2SF discovered the team through a campus tech startup contest. Clonlabs is building a model that predicts context and makes decisions without user intervention by learning computer-use patterns.