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ByteDance Joins AI Elite in Race to Perfect World Models
ByteDance Ltd. is readying an AI model geared for real-time spatial video generation, taking on Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc. in an arena with applications in robotics and autonomous systems.
Bloomberg AI / 2:26 AM
ByteDance Gets $30 Billion Loan, Asia’s Second-Largest This Year
ByteDance Ltd., the developer of TikTok, has secured a $29.6 billion loan, according to people familiar with the matter, in Asia’s second-largest dollar-denominated borrowing this year.
Hacker News AI / 7:48 AM
ByteDance Launches AI Office Product "Doubao Work"
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Hacker News AI / 4:58 PM
ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Code for Agentic Coding
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Ars Technica AI / 1:29 PM
ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic
TikTok owner training a model with 10 trillion parameters.
The Decoder / 12:54 PM
China's Largest AI Model Is Being Developed at Bytedance
Bytedance is training an AI model with up to ten trillion parameters, according to the Financial Times. That's three times the size of Moonshot's Kimi K3, currently the largest Chinese model. The article China's Largest AI Model Is Being Developed at Bytedance appeared first on The Decoder .
The Verge AI / 10:06 PM
Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over
On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that's loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 novel Echopraxia. The short comes from Blomkamp's new AI startup / production company, Barley Studios, and features characters whose voices and faces are modeled after human actors. But […]
Bloomberg AI / 9:57 AM
ByteDance Challenges Tencent With New Doubao Workplace AI Agent
ByteDance Ltd. launched a workspace AI agent under the brand of China’s most popular chatbot, entering a burgeoning domestic market to take on Tencent Holdings Ltd.
The Decoder / 5:11 PM
Claude Code's complicated China problem involves bans on both sides of the Pacific
Anthropic is trying to block Chinese companies like ByteDance and Ant Financial from accessing Claude Code, but they're getting around the restrictions through VPNs and overseas subsidiaries. Alibaba, meanwhile, has banned its own employees from using the tool after hidden code was found that could identify Chinese users. The article Claude Code's complicated China problem involves bans on both sides of the Pacific appeared first on The Decoder .
The Decoder / 1:33 PM
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 generates 30-second video clips with built-in audio
ByteDance just shipped Seedance 2.5, an AI video model that produces video and audio together in one go. Each clip runs up to 30 seconds, three times what Google's Gemini Omni Flash puts out. Users can feed in dozens of images, videos, and audio files as reference. For ad teams, this could kill the process of cutting together one short clip at a time. The article ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 generates 30-second video clips with built-in audio appeared first on The Decoder .
Bloomberg AI / 8:02 PM
TikTok to Pay $400 Million to Settle DOJ Child Privacy Case
TikTok Inc. and Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. agreed to pay $400 million to resolve a a Biden-era lawsuit by the Justice Department accusing the popular social media app of collecting data on children in violation of an online privacy law.
Bloomberg AI / 12:55 PM
ByteDance Draws Over $30 Billion in Orders for Jumbo Bank Loan
ByteDance Ltd., the developer of TikTok, has attracted more than $30 billion of orders for its jumbo syndicated loan, people familiar with the matter said, indicating strong interest from lenders as the Chinese technology giant ramps up investments in artificial intelligence.
Hacker News AI / 11:13 AM
Beijing is forcing a mass breakup with AI lovers
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Hacker News AI / 5:18 PM
ByteDance: Are Chinese AI Models Catching Up to the US?
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Hacker News AI / 10:45 AM
ByteDance is building a 10T model aimed straight at Anthropic [video]
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Hacker News AI / 4:32 PM
ByteDance targets mega AI model nearing Anthropic's Mythos
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Latent Space / 1:38 AM
[AINews] not much happened today
apart from DeepSeek V4-Flash 0731, a quiet day.
Latent Space / 1:22 AM
[AINews] Codex usage up >10x in 6 months to 7M users, +1M in the past ~day; did Codex overtake Claude Code??
a quiet day lets us fact check some numbers against the sound of silence of Claude Code reporting...
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