A developer spent $47 testing nine multimodal AI APIs from Chinese labs, including Qwen, GLM, Hunyuan, and Doubao, to find cost-effective alternatives to OpenAI's GPT-4o for image-heavy workloads. The…
The Motion Picture Association and ByteDance announced a memorandum of understanding to protect film and TV intellectual property across ByteDance's AI video and image generators Seedance and Seedream…
Alibaba Cloud launched Fun-Music, a beta AI music-generation model that creates complete songs with lyrics, melody, arrangement, and vocals from text prompts, available in limited preview to users in …
China's Cyberspace Administration (CAC) issued guidance in mid-September 2025 barring major tech firms like ByteDance and Alibaba from purchasing Nvidia AI chips, including the RTX Pro 6000D, pushing …
A developer from the gilgeekify programming channel has published a tutorial on crafting prompts for ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 AI video model. The guide details a workflow for generating cinematic acti…
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 and MiniMax's H3, released on the same day two weeks ago, have propelled China to dominate the AI video race, with nine of the top 10 text-to-video systems on Artificial Analy…
YouTube star Cliff Tan, who runs the interior design channel 'Dear Modern' with 2.4 million subscribers, apologized for a paid promotion for Dreamina, a Chinese AI company owned by ByteDance, but defe…
Artificial intelligence is transforming the study of ancient Chinese literature, with ByteDance and Peking University jointly developing Shidian Guji, an online database of more than 70,000 ancient wo…
A LatePost investigation based on interviews with nearly ten Chinese AI researchers and practitioners reveals that model distillation, a technique for compressing or improving AI models by training a …
Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek on Thursday formally released its official V4 Pro model, aiming to regain ground against fast-moving domestic rivals as it expands hiring, computing ca…
Microsoft has shut at least 15 branch offices and joint ventures in China over the past five years and considered exiting the market in 2023, but decided to stay due to profitable business with Chines…
ByteDance has launched SeedRealtime, a native full-duplex audio-video model, according to a Daily AI Brief. The model enables real-time, bidirectional audio and video interactions, marking a significa…
YouTube creator Cliff Tan, who runs the interior design channel 'Dear Modern' with 2.4 million subscribers and a TikTok account with 3.6 million followers, apologized on Monday for promoting Dreamina,…
ByteDance released Seedance 2.5, a video generation API that doubles clip length to 30 seconds and quadruples reference capacity to 50 files. The update introduces four editing modes and improved prom…
Tencent reported Q1 2026 revenues of RMB 196.5 billion, up 9% year-over-year, while core operating profits rose 17% to RMB 84.4 billion, as the company's AI capital expenditure hit RMB 31.9 billion. M…
A post circulating in Chinese AI product manager communities highlights that candidates at Tencent, ByteDance, Kimi, and DeepSeek often fail to fully answer 'What is RAG?' in interviews, revealing a g…
Alibaba has open-sourced its flagship Qwen3.8-Max model with 2.4 trillion parameters under an Apache 2.0 license, marking a strategic shift from selling API access to building an ecosystem. The model …
Tencent Holdings reported an 11% rise in second-quarter revenue to 204.8 billion yuan ($30.36 billion), driven by AI-enhanced advertising and steady gaming income, but net profit rose only 0.7% to 56 …
Chinese AI company Zhipu is approaching 7 million registered API users on its MaaS open platform, adding roughly 2 million since early July, and has activated more than 50,000 domestically developed A…
ByteDance has elevated AI data and safety to a top-level department, placing it on par with its core units Seed, Flow, and Douyin, according to Chinese tech media IT Home. The new department, led by f…