Business & Enterprise2 min read
TikTok U.S. hunts for multiple gigawatts of computing capacity, sources tell CNBC
CNBC
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Every AI story we track on Bytedance: 53 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked to the publisher that reported it.
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This week
Chips & Compute4 min read
ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent order $35bn of Nvidia chips, Reuters reports
The Next Web
This month
Consumer Tech3 min read
Qualcomm’s CEO says AI companies want phones running 100-billion-parameter models by 2028
The Next Web
Business & Enterprise2 min read
TikTok’s Shou Chew expects an AI science breakthrough within three years
The Next Web
Industry & Manufacturing3 min read
ByteDance rents a fifth of China’s data centre capacity, SemiAnalysis says
The Next Web
Film Photography & Animation5 min read
China fuels rush to turn AI video into an industry
Covered by 2 sources
Business & Enterprise3 min read
ByteDance brought in nearly 75% of Nscale’s 2025 sales, the FT reports
The Next Web
TikTok Billionaire Zhang Yiming Overtakes Gautam Adani as Asia’s Richest Person
Covered by 2 sources
Healthcare2 min read
ByteDance’s AI drug unit Anew Labs raises $290M at $1.5B valuation, Reuters reports
The Next Web
Finance4 min read
ByteDance raises $29.6bn, Asia’s second-biggest loan this year, and pays less for it
The Next Web
Video Generation5 min read
As That Whole ‘Tilly Norwood’ Thing Peters Out, AI Acting Achieves Unsettling Ubiquity on Chinese Phone Screens
Gizmodo
Chips & Compute2 min read
China reportedly allows ByteDance and Tencent to import 10,000 H200 chips
Engadget
Chips & Compute4 min read
Nvidia’s H200 finally reaches Chinese buyers, though maybe not mainland China
The Next Web
AI Research2 min read
ByteDance agrees to reel in its AI models to protect Hollywood IPs
Covered by 2 sources
Dev5 min read
ByteDance Seed and Tsinghua AIR Introduces CUDA Agent: A Large-Scale Agentic RL System for CUDA Kernel Generation
MarkTechPost
Social Media4 min read
China bans AI companions, forcing millions to break up with virtual partners
Hacker News
Business & Enterprise4 min read
An activist investor says the market has decided Lionsgate is an AI casualty. It wants the studio to prove otherwise or sell.
The Next Web
LLM & Text Generation3 min read
ByteDance Seed Introduces SeedRealtime: a Native Audio-Visual Full-Duplex LLM That Watches, Listens and Speaks in One Model
MarkTechPost
Education2 min read
Seedance is making a fresh push into education with study app Gauth — starting with AI animated lessons
Business Insider
Business & Enterprise3 min read
ByteDance quietly makes $4bn a year from AI. It just broke up an app to make more.
The Next Web
Image Generation4 min read
The AI that took their jobs is now renting their faces, for $15
The Next Web
AI Research4 min read
China weighs export controls on its own AI models and chips, FT reports
The Next Web
Chips & Compute3 min read
China is rebuilding the smartphone around AI agents. ZTE’s NaviX sold out in hours.
The Next Web
Agents4 min read
Doubao’s AI companions are gone. Users get 3 months to screenshot what is left.
The Next Web
Dev4 min read
Beijing flagged Claude Code as a back door, and Chinese coding tools are lining up to take its place
The Next Web
Chips & Compute4 min read
Iluvatar CoreX seeks to raise $850m as China’s AI-chip rally lifts its shares
The Next Web
Agents3 min read
ByteDance and Alibaba kill custom AI companions as China’s new rules bite
The Next Web
ByteDance seeks a record $20bn offshore loan to fund its AI build-out
The Next Web
ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.5, a 30-second native 4K AI video model that accepts 50 reference inputs
The Next Web
ByteDance is Microsoft’s biggest AI customer, even as Washington treats Chinese AI as a threat
The Next Web
ByteDance and Oracle are using Arm’s in-house AGI CPU, completing the hyperscaler-x86 exit
The Next Web
ByteDance is building its own CPUs on Arm and RISC-V to feed its AI infrastructure
The Next Web
The Qualcomm-ByteDance ASIC deal works around US export controls by design
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The company that built TikTok’s algorithm is now designing drugs for diseases pharma called undruggable
The Next Web
ByteDance adds watermarking and IP guardrails to Seedance 2.0 as it begins cautious global rollout
The Next Web
ByteDance’s new AI video generation model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, comes to CapCut
TechCrunch
ByteDance reportedly pauses global launch of its Seedance 2.0 video generator
TechCrunch
ByteDance’s Controversial AI Video Model Reportedly on Hold Globally Due to Copyright Disputes
Gizmodo
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