7 stories on ByteDance since May 16, 2026, newest first.
Ex-ByteDance intern Keyu Tian raises $30M at $200M for a stealth world model lab, challenging AMD and Google for dominance in physical AI.
ByteDance trains a 10-trillion-parameter AI model to rival Anthropic's Mythos, three times China's current largest and still in pre-training.
ByteDance is pretraining a model with up to 10 trillion parameters targeting Anthropic Mythos quality, the largest Chinese AI training run on record.
Seedream 5.0 Pro cuts design rework by 6 hours per asset with layer-separated editing, marking China's lead in production-integrated creative AI.
Qualcomm lands a ByteDance deal to supply millions of custom AI ASICs for Doubao, its biggest AI win yet and a direct challenge to Nvidia data centers.
ByteDance is weighing up to $70B in 2026 AI capex, funded by $50B in 2025 profit, as it races to lead China's AI market and rival US labs.
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 adds an AI-native Content ID system under Hollywood legal pressure, rewriting rules for ownership in generated video.