Neuro-sama

Neuro-sama is an independent English-speaking VTuber who streams on Twitch and is an artificial intelligence (AI) VTuber, singer, and chatbot . She was created by the pseudonymous programmer Vedal and livestreams on his Twitch and Bilibili channels . Her most remarkable feature is that she is not a human streamer herself, but rather a complex of programs emulating a human streamer using artificial intelligence . Neuro-sama debuted on Twitch on 19 December 2022 .

Profile

Debut Date	December 19, 2022
Birthday	December 19
Creator	Vedal (Vedal987)
Agency	Independent
Fan Name	The Swarm
Platform	Twitch (vedal987)
Nationality	British (technically)
Species	Artificial Intelligence

Activities and Content

Her speech and personality are powered by a large language model (LLM) that is combined with a computer-animated avatar and a text-to-speech voice, allowing her to communicate with viewers in the stream's chat . Neuro regularly streams on Vedal's Twitch channel, with various subjects including the aforementioned osu!, engaging in conversation with chat to the best of her ability (with things naturally going weird), karaoke, reacting to videos, and other games the AI can learn from including Minecraft and Pokémon battles (via Pokémon Showdown) .

Neuro-sama's Twitch content often centers around playing video games, notably osu!, whose gameplay once defeated the best-ranking human player in the world known as mrekk . Her content has also included singing songs, including several official covers and original songs; playing chess with her viewers; chatting with other VTubers during collaborations; and reacting to YouTube videos .

Notable Achievements

An annual subathon which begins on the anniversary of her debut has seen Vedal's Twitch channel become the all-time third most-subscribed channel and claim the all-time Twitch hype train record
On 1 January, Neuro-sama's channel broke the world record highest Twitch hype train level during her subathon, reaching level 111 and surpassing Pirate Software's former record of level 106
On 11 February, during her first stream after the subathon, a global Twitch emote named :ShouldiCelebrate: featuring Neuro was released for breaking the Hype Train record

Characteristics

Neuro-sama tends to exhibit a direct but polite attitude . Her comedic and sometimes controversial responses to the live chat have gone viral, accelerating the channel's rise in popularity . Neuro-sama's model is that of a young girl in an Anime art style with large blue eyes and brown hair tied with pink ribbons .

Technical Background

Neuro-sama started out as a singular AI that played osu! using an 80x60 grayscale version of the screen shown to the viewer . It's a constantly learning program that was originally created in 2018. Back then, Vedal, also known as Jack, intended to create a model that could play the rhythm game Osu!

Family and Relationships

Her creator and maintainer is Vedal, a British programmer with whom she shares a channel and her programmer, Vedal, eventually came to be considered her parent alongside her primary model artist, Anny . The channel also features Evil Neuro, Neuro's twin sister .

Fanbase

Neuro-sama's fanbase is dubbed "The Swarm", so-named for the swarm of drones Neuro-sama once declared she would use to rule the world . Neuro's fans are known as The Swarm, and are represented as gymbag drones. The main color used is dark red, but they are also seen in various neon colors as well .