Sources: in recent months, Tencent aggressively hired AI researchers from ByteDance, including by offering to double their salaries, and reorganized its AI team — Throughout the past couple of years, as AI fever swept China's technology…
HIGHLIGHTS: ByteDance and ZTE are developing a second-generation Agentic AI, Doubao phone, for a planned late-2026 launch. The first AI phone sold out quickly but was limited to around 30,000 units as an engineering test. ByteDance aims to…
Key Highlights: ByteDance’s new agentic AI smartphone faces major pushback from major Chinese apps over security and fairness concerns. The company has restricted its AI agent, Doubao, after reports of blocked logins, account freezes, and…
Users of ByteDance's agentic AI phone Nubia M153 report that its Doubao assistant is blocked or limited by Tencent's WeChat, Alibaba's Taobao, and other apps — HONG KONG — A battle over online security and consumer eyeballs is brewing…
In what is reminiscent of the DeepSeek moment of early 2025, when the rest of the world collectively gasped at China's rapid progress on AI LLMs, TikTok owner ByteDance has now partnered with ZTE to launch the Nubia M153 prototype, which…
The state of Hawaii is suing ByteDance Inc., the parent company of TikTok, alleging the largest social media company in the world exploits 1 billion users worldwide — more than
The company behind TikTok has released its first AI developer phone, and it is already sold out, commanding a big markup by scalpers. The phone is capable of a number of automated functionalities made easy by the integration with the…
The AI assistant, powered by ByteDance's popular Doubao large language model, allows users to voice activate tasks such as finding content and booking tickets