Tsinghua spin-off Tairex opens virtual consultation room for AI hospital platform

Wuxi Tairex Technology, a spin-off of Tsinghua University’s Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), launched a virtual consultation room for its Tairex Agent Hospital platform on 10 April 2026, opening the feature to doctors and medical students as a scalable environment for simulated clinical training and digital clinical capability development.

The platform supports diagnosis across more than 1,000 disease types across 21 clinical departments, with capabilities in large-scale simulation and clinical reasoning.

The virtual consultation room allows users to build personalised doctor avatar agents and conduct end-to-end simulated consultations alongside AI patient agents. The two-way interaction model is designed to enable doctor avatars to evolve alongside real clinicians, creating a digital record of diagnostic decisions and clinical workflows.

Professor Liu Yang, the initiator of Tairex, said the launch advances the commercialisation of the platform, enabling scalable clinical training and the replication of medical expertise to support improved accessibility and efficiency of digital clinical services.

The platform traces its conceptual origins to a paper published in May 2024 by Professor Liu Yang’s team at Tsinghua, proposing the Agent Hospital framework, in which all virtual actors — including patients, nurses, and doctors — are generated via a large language model.

Tsinghua University formally inaugurated its AI Agent Hospital in April 2025, with early pilot programmes focused on general practice, ophthalmology, radiological diagnostics, and respiratory medicine. The April 2026 virtual consultation room launch marks the platform’s next commercialisation phase.