
字節跳動洽談採購天數智芯AI晶片,擬成其第三大國產GPU供應商
中國科技巨頭字節跳動正與上海AI晶片公司天數智芯洽談採購用於AI推理的晶片,擬成為其第三大國產GPU供應商。此舉顯示中國晶片製造商在政府推動科技自主及美國限制先進晶片出口的背景下,正努力提供外國AI晶片的替代方案。

中國科技巨頭字節跳動正與上海AI晶片公司天數智芯洽談採購用於AI推理的晶片,擬成為其第三大國產GPU供應商。此舉顯示中國晶片製造商在政府推動科技自主及美國限制先進晶片出口的背景下,正努力提供外國AI晶片的替代方案。

Seres ra mắt thương hiệu xe mới Saidou Technology, tập trung vào trải nghiệm người dùng AI với buồng lái Volcano Engine của ByteDance. Xe dự kiến là crossover điện/EREV, sản xuất tại nhà máy Seres Phoenix, nhắm khách hàng trẻ và thị trường quốc tế.

Yapay zekâ alanındaki yatırımları ve Doubao sohbet botunun başarısıyla ByteDance kurucusu Zhang Yiming, servetini 92,8 milyar dolara çıkararak Asya'nın en zengin ikinci kişisi ve Çin'in en zengini oldu. Mukesh Ambani üçüncü sıraya geriledi.

ByteDance's AI chatbot Doubao experienced a 1.81% month-on-month user decline in China, a concerning trend in a competitive market. Founder of Aicpb.com, Li Bangzhu, suggests Doubao may be monetizing too early, as free AI services remain prevalent. New subscription tiers were introduced in May, with plans ranging from 68 to 500 yuan monthly.

ByteDance's AI chatbot Doubao saw a 1.81% month-on-month user decline in China's competitive market. Founder of Aicpb.com, Li Bangzhu, called it a "worrying sign" and suggested Doubao might be monetizing too early, as free AI services are still prevalent. Doubao recently introduced new subscription tiers.

ByteDance'in kurucusu Zhang Yiming, şirketin değerindeki artış ve yapay zekâ alanındaki başarıları sayesinde Mukesh Ambani'yi geride bırakarak Asya'nın en zengin ikinci kişisi oldu. Serveti 92,8 milyar dolara ulaşan Zhang, Çin'in en zengin kişisi unvanını da pekiştirdi.

AI researcher Gu Quanquan, who led foundational AI research for TikTok owner ByteDance, has announced his departure. He was instrumental in releasing the company's latest AI model, Seed 2.0, and directed efforts in the large language model race.

ByteDance's AI technology, Seedance 2.0, featured prominently at Cannes Film Festival with two short films and the AI-generated feature "Hell Grind." The latter, produced by Higgsfield AI, cost under $500,000, showcasing AI's potential for cost-effective film production.

ByteDance's CapCut will integrate with Google's Gemini AI assistant, allowing users to generate and edit videos seamlessly within the Gemini app. This partnership aims to create a more conversational and intuitive content creation experience.

中国ByteDance傘下のCapCutは、GoogleのAIアシスタントGeminiとの提携を発表。Geminiアプリ内でCapCutの高度な編集機能を直接利用可能にし、AIによる画像・動画生成から編集までを一貫して行える環境を整備する。

ByteDance’s Volcano Engine, the cloud unit that released an OpenClaw-based cloud agent tool ArkClaw, is betting that the next phase of artificial intelligence will hinge on cheaper tokens, higher inference efficiency and longer context windows. “Agent-related token consumption still accounts for a single-digit percentage of total token usage, but it is growing,” said Li Guodong, chief architect of ArkClaw, on Tuesday on the sidelines of OpenClaw’s first mainland China event since the open-source...

Kuaishou Technology’s shares jumped as much as 10 per cent on Tuesday morning after reports that the Chinese short-video platform was raising new funding for its Kling AI unit at a US$20 billion valuation. Kuaishou – often seen as a rival to ByteDance-owned Douyin in China – plans to spin off its video generation service, according to a report by Chinese technology news outlet The LatePost on Monday, citing anonymous sources. The company is in talks with potential investors, including Tencent...

Kuaishou Technology’s shares jumped as much as 10 per cent on Tuesday morning after reports that the Chinese short-video platform was raising new funding for its Kling AI unit at a valuation of US$20 billion. Kuaishou – often seen as a rival to ByteDance-owned Douyin in China – plans to spin off its video generation service, according to a report by Chinese technology news outlet The LatePost on Monday, citing anonymous sources. The company is in talks with potential investors, including Tencent...

DÉCRYPTAGE - Le géant chinois a augmenté de 25 % ses investissements qui devraient atteindre cette année 30 milliards de dollars.

TikTok owner ByteDance is ramping up its spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure, boosting its planned capital expenditure this year to more than 200 billion yuan (US$30 billion), according to two people familiar with the matter. This represented an increase of at least 25 per cent compared with a preliminary plan discussed late last year that proposed AI capex of 160 billion yuan, they said. The increase was necessary because of the company’s growing commitment to AI, as well as...

Chloe Wang, a 26-year-old fund employee in Shenzhen, said she “definitely wouldn’t” pay for a subscription to Doubao, Chinese tech giant ByteDance’s artificial intelligence chatbot, at its proposed price. “I’m willing to pay for AI tools, but I don’t think it’s worth that much – even though I find Doubao relatively easy to use among domestic AI products,” said Wang, who uses the app occasionally for work-related queries. “If I had to pay for an AI tool as a productivity aid, I’d probably rather...

ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, is pushing deeper into artificial intelligence with Anew Labs, a drug-discovery unit that has begun presenting its AI-designed therapies at international conferences. The unit – also known as Anew Therapeutics or ByteDance AI Drug Discovery – operates from Shanghai, Singapore and San Jose, California. Its official website listed 36 core members, as well as big names on its “scientific advisory board”: Liu Yongjun, former president of Innovent Biologics, Ji...

DeepSeek V4 yapay zeka modelinin piyasaya sürülmesiyle Huawei Ascend 950 çiplerine olan küresel ve yerel talep hızla yükseldi. ByteDance, Tencent ve Alibaba gibi Çin'in önde gelen teknoloji devleri, yeni nesil yapay zeka iş yüklerini yönetebilmek amacıyla Huawei ile stratejik görüşmelere başladı. Ascend 950 işlemci ailesi, DeepSeek V4-Flash ve V4-Pro modelleriyle tam uyumlu çalışacak şekilde optimize edildi.

Time magazine has included three Chinese companies – Alibaba Group Holding, ByteDance and Zhipu AI – in its inaugural "10 Most Influential AI Companies of 2026" list, marking the first AI-specific sub-list under its Time100 ranking. The list features six US companies and one French company (Mistral AI), highlighting how AI has become a defining force in the global economy. Alibaba's Qwen models have surpassed 1 billion downloads, with the company emphasizing open-source strategies to drive adoption.

China's market regulator fined seven tech platforms 3.6 billion yuan (US$528 million) after an antitrust probe revealed obstruction tactics. Investigators at Pinduoduo discovered a hidden office area, while PDD's security head led a group that stormed the site, hospitalizing an official with a head injury. A PDD employee was also caught passing and then swallowing notes with instructions to stay silent during questioning.

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2.6, its latest open-source flagship model featuring upgrades in long-horizon coding, motion-rich front-end generation and agent-based workflows. The company claims the model performs on par with or better than GPT-5.4, Claude Opus 4.6 and Gemini 3.1 Pro across benchmarks, though independent verification remains limited. Artificial Analysis ranks it among the top tier of open-source models globally.

ByteDance's overseas revenue surged nearly 50% in 2025, outpacing China's ~20% growth, with overseas markets accounting for over 30% of total revenue for the first time. TikTok Shop was the main driver, with gross merchandise value growing nearly 70% last year. The company reported a profit drop under international accounting standards due to stock option costs, which executives said did not reflect actual operations.

As China’s artificial intelligence sector accelerates, competition for top talent has intensified among major tech companies, with firms increasingly poaching from rivals while also attracting researchers from overseas hubs such as Silicon Valley. A reported high-profile personnel move involving DeepSeek researcher Guo Daya recently drew attention to the sensitivity surrounding AI hiring in China’s tech sector. Guo, a lead researcher on DeepSeek’s R1 model, joined ByteDance’s Seed AI development...

Alibaba's new AI video generation model, HappyHorse 1.0, has surpassed ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 in benchmark rankings for both text-to-video and image-to-video capabilities, highlighting the intense competition in the AI talent race.