ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5, an AI video model that generates 30-second 4K clips from a single prompt, at a Beijing conference on Tuesday. The model accepts up to 50 reference pieces, up from 12 i…
ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5, an AI video model capable of generating single clips up to 30 seconds long with scene changes and tempo shifts, at its Volcano Engine FORCE conference. The model, laun…
ByteDance confirmed Seedance 2.5, its next AI video generation model, for an early July launch with native 30-second single-shot video output, 50 full-modal reference materials, and enhanced controlla…
ByteDance's AI assistant app Doubao is testing a ride-hailing feature in Beijing and Hangzhou, powered by Caocao Mobility, expanding into instant mobility after e-commerce and group-buying.…
Baidu is pursuing full-stack AI capabilities by building its own chips, models, and cloud infrastructure while gaining access to restricted Nvidia H200 GPUs. The company's Kunlunxin chip unit could be…
Tencent is testing an AI agent inside WeChat that can complete tasks across mini-programs, leveraging the super app's 1.4 billion users and existing service ecosystem. The agent aims to integrate AI i…
South Korea's exports surged 60.4% year-on-year in the first 20 days of June, driven by a semiconductor boom that saw chip shipments rise 169.4% in May. The AI chip rally is pulling capital from crypt…
China blacklisted 56 American companies in retaliation for Washington's export controls on Anthropic's AI models, escalating the AI trade war into a mutual conflict. Anthropic revealed the trigger for…
ByteDance released DeerFlow 2.0, a ground-up rewrite of its open-source agent runtime, on February 28, 2026. The new version transforms the deep-research tool into an isolated, stateful execution harn…
Web designer Viktor Oddy published a tutorial demonstrating how to combine Google's Gemini 3.1 with ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 to create animated, cinematic websites that typically cost $10,000. The wor…
DeepSeek raised $7.4 billion in its first external funding round, valuing it above $50 billion, but the deal structure gives China's National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund direct eq…
DeepSeek raised $7.4 billion in Series A funding led by Tencent, with CATL as a major investor, signaling a shift in Chinese AI funding toward non-ecosystem players as Alibaba and ByteDance sat out. T…
Chinese AI developers are slashing compute costs by up to 97% through architectural innovations like sparse MoE and FP8 training, reshaping global AI pricing under US export controls. DeepSeek trained…
AIWave has launched a platform that provides a single API endpoint to access over 50 Chinese AI models from eight providers, including DeepSeek, Zhipu, and Alibaba, without requiring code changes. The…
Five Chinese AI labs—ByteDance, Tencent, MiniMax, Alibaba, and Xiaomi—cut token prices by 50% to 99% within the same competitive window, driven by narrowing capability differences between major AI mod…
General Atlantic is in talks to lead a funding round for Kling AI, the video arm of Chinese tech group Kuaishou, at an $18 billion valuation. The deal faces political risks as Beijing has instructed C…
ByteDance is Microsoft's largest AI customer, spending over $1 billion annually on OpenAI models via Azure, even as U.S. regulators tighten rules on Chinese AI access. Microsoft's AI revenue in China …
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is raising $7.4 billion in its first external funding round, instructing investors not to poach its employees as it issues equity to retain its 150-person team. The round v…
ByteDance's Doubao, China's most popular AI chatbot with 345 million monthly active users, is introducing subscription plans from 688 to 5,088 yuan annually, sparking user backlash and debate over mon…
ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, is spending billions on AI and shifting to domestic chips, potentially benefiting second-tier Chinese chipmakers like Iluvatar CoreX, Biren Technology, and others. The …