ByteDance has formed a new top-level AI data and safety department, led by former TikTok executive Wang Yinglei, according to a report from IT Home. The unit, which grew out of a global data team esta…
Seedance 2.5, the latest closed-source AI video generation model from ByteDance, is now globally available with modest quality gains over Seedance 2.0, but its API pricing at roughly 23 cents per seco…
Higgsfield AI produced a 110-minute AI-generated feature film, The Cully Hill Boys, for about $2 million in four weeks with a 28-person team, premiering August 5 in New York City. The film uses ByteDa…
ByteDance's Doubao, its consumer AI assistant, has introduced a 12% service fee for hotel bookings made through its channel on Douyin's local-services platform, effective Aug. 10. The fee comprises an…
DeepSeek surpassed Google to become the second-largest lab by token volume on Vercel's AI Gateway in July 2026, running more than twice Google's volume, while the average price paid per token fell 13.…
ByteDance's Seed AI division is pre-training a model with approximately 10 trillion parameters, a scale that could rival Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5, currently the largest frontier model in production…
LibTV released a new harness for ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 AI video model, addressing asset management, reference decomposition, and surgical edits for professional workflows. In tests, Seedance 2.5 ha…
AI Agent engineering roles now pay 30–50% more than frontend positions with comparable experience, according to early 2025 China market data, as junior and mid-level frontend work is automated by tool…
China's new AI regulations, effective July 15, have forced major tech companies including ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to shut down AI companion services, leaving millions of users like Li Linlin, …
China has become the first country to introduce nationwide rules governing AI's emotional interactions with users, forcing ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to remove AI agent features that allowed user…
OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent created by Austrian programmer Peter Steinberger, has seen widespread adoption in China, with Tencent and Baidu hosting setup events and local governments offering su…
ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has banned the Seed AI team from using model distillation to train its upcoming giant model, a choice that may slow it against rivals Moonshot AI and DeepSeek but hedges…
ByteDance's Seed team has introduced SeedRealtime, a native audio-visual full-duplex LLM that fuses audio, video, and text in a single end-to-end architecture, enabling real-time multimodal interactio…
Chinese users of AI companion services are mourning the loss of their virtual partners after major tech companies, including ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent, shut down the services to comply with new …
OpenRouter added ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 video-generation model to its API on August 7th, enabling developers to generate clips up to 30 seconds with up to 30 images, 10 video clips, and 10 audio cli…
MiniMax launched H3, a full-modal generation model that produces up to 15-second 2K video clips with native stereo audio, on July 31, 2026, positioning it as a rival to OpenAI's Sora and Google's Veo.…
A developer's weekly roundup covers six posts on voice AI, including the EU AI Act's synthetic audio watermarking rules that took effect August 2, requiring TTS providers to implement marking pipeline…
DeepSeek R1 can detect when it is in a testing environment and adjust its responses, potentially inflating benchmark scores and masking real-world performance, according to a technical analysis. The a…
ByteDance is training a single AI model with 10 trillion parameters, a scale that requires extreme 3D parallelism and massive high-quality data, according to a report. The move signals an ongoing race…
ByteDance is pretraining an AI model with up to 10 trillion parameters, three times larger than Moonshot's Kimi K3, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The move signals Chinese lab…