2023. Doubao 1.5 Pro is an AI model released by TikTok’s parent company ByteDance last week. Doubao is currently one of the most popular AI chatbots in China, with 60 million monthly active users.

TikTok has had a wild start to 2025. The app was banned in the United States, went dark, then came back online. New users can't download it, since the app hasn't returned to U.S. app stores, but ...

President Donald Trump said late Monday he hoped there would be a “bidding war” for TikTok, claiming Microsoft is now among the companies interested in buying ByteDance’s popular social ...

ByteDance may have had a dramatic few months with the TikTok ban, but that hasn't slowed down the Chinese giant's AI research. With DeepSeek and ByteDance launching world-class competitors OpenAI, it ...

ByteDance, the parent company of the Chinese ... Tech giants hail DeepSeek's AI model, predicting boost for global demand “DeepSeek has done an excellent job and will have a positive impact ...

But it does – and the Tesla Model 3 is the best known. It is, famously, a fully electric car – Tesla doesn’t do petrols, diesels or even hybrids – and it’s the US brand’s smallest and ...

“The model adopted an integrated train-inference design from the pre-training phase to balance between the best performance and most optimal inferencing cost,” ByteDance said in a ...

TIKTOK owner ByteDance on Wednesday (Jan 22) released an update to its flagship AI model aimed at challenging Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s latest reasoning model products, as a global race intensified to ...

ByteDance's release comes after Chinese AI startup DeepSeek rolled out an open-source reasoning model called DeepSeek-R1 on Monday that it said rivalled OpenAI's o1 on several performance benchmarks.

A major shareholder of ByteDance, the Beijing-based owner of TikTok, said Wednesday he was confident that a deal will be reached to ensure the video-sharing app stays online in the US — and ...