A look at ByteDance's efforts to become China's leading company across all aspects of AI, from frontier models and video generation to infrastructure and chips
The Chinese company behind TikTok is pouring resources into the technology. Some think it is a big gamble.
China's National Data Administration says the country's daily AI token consumption hit 140T in March 2026, up from 100T in December 2025 and 100B in early 2024
Every month, a Beijing-based ByteDance employee says he burns through close to a billion units of a new corporate currency - one that cannot buy a coffee or pay rent.
Sources: ByteDance has been Microsoft's biggest AI customer in recent years, largely using OpenAI models, and is on track to spend $1B+ a year on Azure services
Sources: ByteDance is developing its own CPUs to support its growing AI infrastructure needs, as chip price hikes and supply shortages constrain expansion plans
Chinese technology giant ByteDance is developing its own central processing units (CPUs) to support its growing AI infrastructure needs …
Sources: Qualcomm reached a deal with ByteDance to supply millions of ASICs for AI data centers to support AI agents in the Doubao chatbot; QCOM closed up 4.48%
Qualcomm Inc. reached a deal with TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd. to supply chips for artificial intelligence data centers …
Sources: Qualcomm reached a deal with ByteDance to supply millions of ASICs for AI data centers to support AI agents in the Doubao chatbot; QCOM jumps 4.48%
Qualcomm Inc. reached a deal with TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd. to supply chips for artificial intelligence data centers …
Developers say Chinese AI labs lead US rivals in video generation, as ByteDance and Kuaishou train models on vast short-form video libraries from their own apps
Developers say Chinese AI labs lead US rivals in video generation, as ByteDance and Kuaishou train models on vast short-form video libraries from their own apps
Chinese artificial intelligence groups have moved ahead of US rivals in video generation, a key battleground in generative AI …
China's EV makers are competing on in-car AI features; ByteDance says its Doubao AI is used in 7M+ cars across 145 models, including from Mercedes, Audi, and VW
- China's EV price war is evolving into a “feature war” focused on AI and cockpit tech — ByteDance's Doubao AI chatbot …
OpenClaw launches an official China mirror of its ClawHub skills marketplace, with ByteDance providing the cloud servers to host the Chinese-language service
ByteDance is helping OpenClaw operate a Chinese version of its ClawHub marketplace, which distributes OpenClaw's special files that enable AI agents to perform specific tasks.