Polyverse Studio Accelerates AI-Native Entertainment with AI Mirror and Creative World-Building Tools

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan 26, 2026--

Polyverse Studio, a leader in AI creativity tools, is accelerating the future of AI-powered innovation by helping creators scale their ideas and thrive in a market that is reshaping how art and media are both made and experienced.

The company’s flagship app, AI Mirror, offers an easy way to turn selfies or images into portraits or AI avatars, with users creating more than 1.7 billion images with features like restoration, filters, enhancements, and background tools. Polyverse Studio also offers Spellai, a powerful image creator with advanced capabilities that is used by over 500K creators to date.

Milestones and achievements include:

• AI Mirror app grew to more than 30 million downloads in under two years and reached #1 on the Google Play Store Photography chart and the top six on both the Play Store and the Apple App Store, ranking just behind ChatGPT and Gemini, fueling a viral TikTok trend that set the company’s status as a creative catalyst.

• AI Mirror was featured three times in a16z’s Top 50 Global GenAI Apps list for both 2025 and 2024, ranked #17, #16, and #23 for monthly active users.

• Fully bootstrapped, growing to tens of millions in revenue within three years with 200% year-over-year staffing growth during that period.

• AI Mirror and Spellai have surpassed a combined 43 million downloads worldwide.

• Spellai launched to a #1 ranking in Japan and #4 ranking in the U.S. within the first month, is an all-time top 10 GenAI mobile app in Japan, and one of the top downloaded apps in 2025 in Singapore.

• Secured partnerships with global platforms including Google and Samsung, as well as L’Oréal, DBS Bank and Moonton.

“Our rapid growth since the launch of AI Mirror and Spellai points to the strong potential for creative social entertainment experiences,” said Queena Qiu, co-founder and CEO of Polyverse Studio. “The GenAI apps market is expected to accelerate in 2026, and we’ll be a core part of that story, as in just three years we’ve become a leader in image and video creation. We enable users to bring ideas to life, and we back our technology with transparency and ethical guidelines to ensure responsible AI-powered innovation.”

Qiu previously managed the global launch of Apple Music and the introduction of Apple media services to the China market. She also grew TikTok’s international growth while an executive at ByteDance.

Polyverse Studio delivers AI-native entertainment experiences that give users more creative freedom than platforms built around incremental AI add-ons. It offers a studio-style approach that lets users easily develop immersive worlds with AI Mirror and Spellai to create interactive stories and visual tools in one place.

Polyverse Studio sets itself apart by:

• Rapidly turning app capabilities into user experiences faster than market competitors.
• Leveraging the team’s work building top-ranked apps to identify and capitalize on strong use cases before they become industry trends.

This combination of speed, expertise and creative insight positions Polyverse Studio for continued success and innovation in the AI creativity market.

About Polyverse Studio

Polyverse Studio is an AI-native app development platform that enables creators to build visual experiences within a unified environment. Designed from the ground up for generative AI, the company provides users with a range of capabilities for social entertainment. These include AI Mirror, which lets users create AI-driven characters that reflect distinct personalities and styles, and Spellai, a creative playground that turns simple prompts into richly detailed visuals and original AI characters. Visit www.polyversestudio.com.

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