The LLM in question was ByteDance’s Doubao, 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 ...

The pricing level of 0.003 yuan per thousand token users was 85 per cent lower than the industry average, Tan Dai, president of ByteDance’s Volcano Engine cloud unit, said at the time.

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.