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Tue, Aug 25
ByteDance Folds Trae and Coze Into Doubao, Launches Doubao Work This Week to Take On Tencent's WorkBuddy
ByteDance is moving its org structure, not product features — a sign it sees office AI as a battle that demands concentrated firepower.
Wed, Aug 19
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.
Sat, Aug 8
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.
Fri, Aug 7
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.
Thu, Aug 6
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.
Tue, Aug 4
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.
Mon, Aug 3
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.