ByteDance's AI research division Seed has operated without using knowledge distillation since its inception, a divergence from other Chinese AI labs that learn from US-built models. The company aims f…
A developer's measurement harness testing six Chinese LLM APIs found that GLM hallucinated a detailed, non-existent Chinese website for Airtable, complete with a .cn domain, pricing in RMB, and locali…
ByteDance Technology and Alibaba Group Holding are integrating their AI-powered office tools to target the paid enterprise market, with ByteDance merging its Feishu and Doubao AI assistant teams into …
Alibaba launched QwenWork to public beta on August 3, combining QoderWork, MuleRun, and Wukong into a single AI agent product for office software, alongside the Qwen3.8 model. The launch completed a t…
DingTalk and Feishu have evolved into central hubs for enterprise AI, with DingTalk's AI Assistant Platform and Feishu's Intelligent Partner enabling conversational BI deployment directly within their…
Headroom, a new browser extension, provides a real-time visual gauge of context window usage in AI chat conversations, warning users before the AI forgets earlier information. It supports DeepSeek, Ch…
Chinese smartphone makers are integrating AI agents directly into their operating systems, replacing traditional app stores and home screens. ZTE's Nubia NaviX Ultra runs ByteDance's Doubao AI agent w…
Tesla China has begun rolling out software version 2026.14.13 that integrates ByteDance's Doubao large language model into the Model 3, Model Y, Model S and Model X, delivering voice-based interaction…
ByteDance released Seedance 2.5, its latest video-generation model, which can generate a 30-second high-quality video clip in a single run and supports multi-turn extension for longer sequences. The m…
A developer documented how to generate short videos from Claude.ai using a Seedance MCP connector. The connector, based on Ace Data Cloud documentation, exposes ByteDance's Doubao video generation too…
ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, now generates about $4bn annually from artificial intelligence, the largest figure any Chinese firm has publicly claimed, according to the South China Morning Pos…
ByteDance's projected annual AI revenue of US$4 billion is the largest known to the public among Chinese rivals, as the Beijing-based company restructures its office tool Lark by integrating its produ…
ByteDance has restructured its AI operations by merging the product teams behind its Doubao AI assistant and Feishu collaboration platform, creating a new Doubao product organization and a Creativity …
ByteDance restructured its AI business by merging the Feishu product team with the Doubao product team to form a new Doubao product organization, while Feishu's GTM team will integrate with Volcano En…
A developer built HOUJIAYAN API, an OpenAI-compatible gateway that routes requests across 16 Chinese LLMs including DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, MiniMax, and Doubao. The gateway handles authentication, billi…
Chinese students like 18-year-old Guo Xinyan are increasingly using AI chatbots from Alibaba, ByteDance, Tencent, and Baidu to help select colleges and majors after the gaokao exam, as families seek f…
Doubao launched a Pro version based on the 2.1 series models with monthly tiers from 68 to 500 RMB, introducing an 'Office Task Mode' that allows the AI to operate local computers, browsers, and creat…
A user tested four AI image tools—ChatGPT, Gemini, Doubao, and Kimi—to restore photos of their abandoned childhood home in China, finding ChatGPT best captured the era's furniture and details while Ki…
A free AI diagnostic tool found that all eight independently queried AI models — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Kimi, Qianwen, and Doubao — unanimously recommended value investing as the bes…
A free, browser-based diagnostic tool called My AI Investment Operating System uses eight AI models to recommend a personalized investing approach based on a user's personality, experience, and instin…