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2026-08-19-Wed
ByteDance and Motion Picture Association Sign First AI Copyright Agreement, Leaving Training-Data Dispute Aside
▪ Starting with output and sidestepping training, this decoupling approach is likely to become the template for every AI company doing business with Hollywood.
2026-08-08-Sat
Financial Times: ByteDance Is Pretraining a Model With Up to 10 Trillion Parameters — Zhang Yiming Demands No Distillation
▪ Training from scratch is, right now, the only move that the accusation of 'copying' can't touch.
2026-08-07-Fri
LatePost Reports ByteDance Discussing a Model with Over 5 Trillion Parameters, the Largest Known in China
▪ Skip the catch-up and go straight for scale — ByteDance is betting that compute can buy time.
2026-08-06-Thu
Zhang Yiming Tells ByteDance AI All-Hands: No Distillation Shortcut to Boost Model Capabilities
▪ Under compliance pressure, technical purism is sometimes the most cost-effective insurance policy.
2026-08-04-Tue
ByteDance Releases Seedance 2.5: 30-Second Single Generations, Mixing Up to 50 Reference Assets
▪ Competition in video generation has shifted from image quality to how long a story can be told in a single continuous run.
2026-08-03-Mon
Nomura, Citing QuestMobile Data: ByteDance Accounts for 40.1% of User Time in China's Top Apps, Crossing 40% for the First Time
▪ What's valuable is that 40.1% — model generations turn over fast, but where users spend their time moves slowly.