The LLM in question was ByteDance’s Doubao, which is offered as an API under ByteDance’s cloud services division Volcano ...

Doubao-1.5-pro-32k costs 2 yuan per million tokens for output, while its more powerful Doubao-1.5-pro-256k version is priced at 9 yuan, according to ByteDance's cloud platform Volcano Engine.

which is offered as an API under ByteDance’s cloud services division Volcano Engine. But the model is only meant to be used within China’s mainland, a ByteDance spokesperson told TechCrunch.