ByteDance in talks to buy MediaTek data center AI chips
ByteDance has also held talks with Qualcomm on custom silicon design services and separately reached an AI chip supply deal with Qualcomm.
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ByteDance’s Seed AI lab creates dedicated model safety and alignment department
ByteDance’s Seed AI lab is establishing a dedicated Model-Alignment & Preparedness department, according to an internal email reported by The Paper on October 13. Yan Lin will lead the unit and report to Seed head Wu Yonghui.
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China Mobile triples capacity at mega Inner Mongolia computing hub amid nation’s AI push
China Mobile, one of the country’s state-backed telecoms giants, has tripled the capacity of its largest intelligent computing hub in northern Inner Mongolia, amid Beijing’s push to boost digital infrastructure to power the country’s artificial intelligence ambitions.
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DeepSeek’s cost-saving AI may lead to inaccuracy in model performance: research
New research has exposed a potential flaw in the memory-saving technology underpinning DeepSeek’s models, marking a rare challenge to a breakthrough that has helped the Chinese artificial intelligence lab close the gap with US rivals OpenAI and Anthropic with its low-cost approach.
South China Morning Post Tech1 min read
Huawei Goes Deep, Alibaba Broad, ByteDance Focused, Tencent Clever: The Fight to Own the AI Phone
Four Chinese tech giants are taking different routes to own the AI agent that sits between phone users and their apps, while super apps and revenue sharing remain unresolved.
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ByteDance researchers identify cause of inconsistent long-context retrieval in DeepSeek models
Researchers from ByteDance’s Seed team have identified a mechanism behind inconsistent long-context retrieval in DeepSeek models. Their study found that chunked KV-cache compression makes retrieval accuracy sensitive to where information falls within a compression window, producing differences of…
TechNode - China AI1 min read
ByteDance's TRAE Merges TraeWork and TraeCode Into One Platform; TraeWork Shuts Down October 23
ByteDance's TRAE folds TraeWork and TraeCode into one app with Agent and IDE modes across desktop, web and mobile. TraeWork stops service on October 23.
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ByteDance Seed Paper Finds a 'Phase Sensitivity' Blind Spot in Chunked KV-Cache Compression
A ByteDance Seed paper finds retrieval accuracy in chunk-compressed models such as DeepSeek-V4 can swing by up to 40 points depending on where a token sits.
Pandaily2 min read
Meta starts ByteDance ad ban in 7 markets
The restriction applies in the US, Canada, Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam.
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ByteDance heads first SCMP Plus Going Global 100 ranking
TikTok owner ByteDance is China’s Going Global champion, according to a new SCMP Plus databank tracking mainland companies’ overseas expansion efforts. The social media giant topped the debut SCMP Plus Going Global 100 ranking ahead of Apple assembler Foxconn Industrial Internet, online fashion…
South China Morning Post Tech1 min read
Ex-ByteDance intern raises $30m for China AI startup
World models are AI systems that simulate real-world physics for applications such as robotics and interactive video.
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ByteDance's Doubao App Lands on Huawei HarmonyOS PCs With Doubao-Seed-2.1 Pro and Turbo
Doubao's native HarmonyOS PC app ships with Doubao-Seed-2.1 Pro and Turbo, chat and work modes and agent-style tools; Huawei says it topped the HarmonyOS PC wishlist.
Pandaily2 min read
China’s open-weight AI models are winning global users. Who is capturing the value?
China’s open-weight artificial intelligence models are taking off globally, but much of the money they generate is flowing to third-party providers rather than the companies that create them, according to a new study.
South China Morning Post Tech1 min read
ADIA, Coller EQT in talks to back $1b ByteDance vehicle
Depending on how investors allocate that discount, ByteDance’s implied valuation would be US$400 billion to US$450 billion.
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TikTok estimates $81b US economic impact in 2025: report
The report said 27 million Americans visited an independent shop, cafe, or restaurant for the first time after seeing it on TikTok.
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ByteDance reportedly tests standalone Doubao personal assistant app
ByteDance is reportedly testing a personal AI assistant tied to Doubao and plans to release it as a standalone app. The product has been given the tentative Chinese name Xiaodou (小豆), according to a report cited by IT Home.
TechNode - China AI1 min read
ByteDance's Doubao Reportedly Readies Personal AI Assistant From Project Codenamed Spell
ByteDance's Doubao has tested a personal assistant project codenamed Spell since April and plans to launch a new product soon, Chinese media report. ByteDance has not announced it.
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ByteDance’s Doubao reportedly preparing personal AI agent, codenamed Spell and tested since April
ByteDance’s AI assistant Doubao is reportedly accelerating work on a new personal AI agent. According to sources, the project began internal testing as early as April and was previously known internally as Spell.
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