ByteDance

2025.04.28

16:06

Report: Tencent, Alibaba, and ByteDance rush to buy computing resources

According to multiple independent sources, Tencent purchased GPU (graphics processing unit) computing resources worth about 2 billion yuan from ByteDance in the first quarter of this year. These resources are mainly NVIDIA H20 cards and servers. Tencent Yuanbao's current updates mainly use cards from ByteDance. In addition to Tencent, an insider said that Alibaba also placed a GPU order with ByteDance after DeepSeek became popular in the first quarter of this year.

2025.04.27

17:44

ByteDance launches Top Seed big model top talent plan 2026 campus recruitment

On April 27, ByteDance Seed officially launched the 2026 Top Seed Big Model Talent Campus Recruitment Plan. This year's Top Seed research topics include big language models, machine learning algorithms and systems, multimodal generation, multimodal understanding, speech and other directions, basically covering all areas of big model research. It is worth mentioning that this year's Top Seed emphasizes no restrictions on professional backgrounds, and pays more attention to research potential, hoping to find young researchers with strong technical beliefs and enthusiasm, excellent research capabilities, curiosity and drive.

2025.04.25

06:45

AI glasses become a new favorite among consumers, and listed companies are entering the market

Since the beginning of this year, artificial intelligence (AI) glasses have rapidly moved from concept to reality and have become the new favorite in the consumer market. Faced with this highly prosperous track, many brands have made efforts and intensively released smart glasses-related products. Brands such as Rokid, Snap, Baidu, Thunderbird Innovation, and XREAL continue to innovate and bring consumers AI glasses products with diverse functions and novel designs. At the same time, companies such as Samsung, OPPO, Huawei, Tencent, and ByteDance are also actively deploying AI glasses projects in an attempt to seize the initiative in this emerging market. According to Wellsenn XR forecast data, artificial intelligence + augmented reality (AR) technology is expected to develop to a mature stage, and global AI glasses shipments are expected to grow to 80 million pairs in 2030.

2025.04.24

11:26

Xiaohongshu will cancel the big and small weekly

On April 23, it was reported that Xiaohongshu announced the cancellation of the big and small week system, which will be implemented after the May Day holiday. An insider said that the cancellation of the big and small week system will affect income, "logically it will be reduced by 15% or 20%. Because two small weeks in a month are double wages, which is equivalent to getting 4 more days of wages." The big and small week system is a form of overtime, specifically referring to working 5 days a week in a "big week" and 6 days a week in a "small week". It was widely adopted by Internet companies. Previously, Kuaishou, ByteDance, etc. announced the cancellation of the big and small week system.

2025.04.23

07:46

ByteDance Open Source Multimodal AI Agent—UI-TARS-1.5

ByteDance has open-sourced the latest 1.5 version of its multimodal AI Agent UI-TARS. Compared with the previous generation, version 1.5 performed very well in benchmarks such as computer use, browser use, and mobile phone use. In terms of computer use, the OSworld test score was 42.5, higher than Open AI CUA's 36.4, Claude 3.7's 28, and the previous highest level of 38.1 (200 steps); Windows Agent Arena (50 steps) scored 42.1, far exceeding the previous 29.8.

2025.04.18

12:05

BMW and ByteDance deepen local cooperation

On April 18, BMW Brilliance Lingyue Digital Information Technology Co., Ltd. and Volcano Engine, a cloud service platform under ByteDance, announced a partnership. The two parties will focus on the innovative application of artificial intelligence in automotive marketing services, using AI+ scenarios for efficient product matching and car purchase suggestions, and precise content guidance to comprehensively improve user car purchase experience and dealer operational efficiency. This is the second time BMW has reached cooperation with a leading Chinese technology company after the release of the "360-degree full-chain AI strategy" last month.

2025.04.17

19:17

Tan Dai, President of Huoshan: The capabilities of many agents are still at the L1 stage similar to autonomous driving

"At present, the capabilities of many agents are still at the elementary level. The direction of industry development is to truly realize agents with stronger reflection, planning and autonomous decision-making capabilities." On April 17, at the Volcano Engine 2025 FORCE LINK AI Innovation Tour in Hangzhou, Tan Dai, president of Volcano under ByteDance, said in an interview. Tan Dai believes that the deep thinking model is the basis for building an agent. The model must be able to think, plan and reflect well, and must support multimodality, just like humans have vision and hearing, so that the agent can better handle complex tasks. On the same day, Doubao 1.5 deep thinking model was officially released. According to reports, in addition to outstanding performance in general tasks such as mathematics, programming, scientific reasoning, creative writing, etc., this model also launched a visual version of the deep thinking model with visual reasoning ability, which can associate and think about what it sees like humans.

2025.04.14

12:27

ByteDance's latest thinking model technical details are released, and the interface will be open for user experience on April 17

On April 14, the technical details of ByteDance’s latest thinking model Seed-Thinking-v1.5 were made public, and the interface will be opened through Volcano Engine on April 17 for user experience. It is reported that the model performs outstandingly in professional fields such as mathematics, programming, scientific reasoning, and general tasks such as creative writing. At the same time, the model adopts the MoE architecture, with a total parameter of 200B and an activation parameter of 20B. It has a significant reasoning cost advantage, and the unit reasoning cost is reduced by 50 compared to DeepSeek R1.

2025.04.13

10:48

ByteDance is reportedly developing its own AI glasses

According to two people familiar with the matter, ByteDance is planning to launch its own AI smart glasses. According to one of the people familiar with the matter, ByteDance is expected to provide AI functions similar to its self-developed model Doubao in its smart glasses. At present, the time and sales area of ByteDance's launch of this smart glasses have not yet been determined. According to people familiar with the matter, ByteDance is negotiating with suppliers to determine product functions, technical specifications, costs and release time.

2025.04.11

21:03

ByteDance is developing AI-powered smart glasses

Market news: ByteDance is developing artificial intelligence smart glasses.

18:32

ByteDance Games plans to go public independently, with more than 40 games under its umbrella

ByteDance plans to package its Moonton and Chaoxi Guangnian into a whole and plan to list its game business independently. Judging from multiple independent sources visited by Game News, it is no secret that ByteDance plans to go public, and the plan has been in place for some time. A person close to ByteDance Games said that ByteDance hired Zhang Yunfan as CEO of the game business after the big game retreat at the end of 2023 based on the consideration of listing. It can be seen from Zhang Yunfan's resume that he is more of an investor than a gamer. He served as president of the game business at Perfect World, but retired around 2019 and lived abroad for a long time, paying more attention to the game industry in the form of investment.

2025.04.10

22:45

ByteDance exposed to sharp decline in profit growth in 2024

ByteDance realized a net profit of $33 billion in 2024, a year-on-year increase of just 6%, a sharp decline in growth from 2023, The information reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

14:32

ByteDance Doubao Big Model Team officially opens source of the first multilingual SWE dataset

On April 10, the ByteDance Doubao Big Model team officially open-sourced the first multi-language SWE dataset, Multi-SWE-bench, which can be used to evaluate and improve the "automatic bug fixing" capabilities of big models. Based on SWE-bench, Multi-SWE-bench covers seven mainstream programming languages other than Python for the first time, and is a true evaluation benchmark for "full-stack engineering". Its data comes from GitHub issues and took nearly a year to build, in order to evaluate and improve the high-level programming intelligence level of big models as accurately as possible.

2025.04.05

08:20

ByteDance: No agreement has been reached with the US government and the two sides still have differences on many key issues

ByteDance’s official account stated that ByteDance is still in talks with the US government and has not reached any agreement. The two sides still have differences on many key issues. According to Chinese law, any agreement must go through relevant review procedures.

02:42

ByteDance spokesperson: We have discussed possible solutions for TikTok in the United States with the US government, but no agreement has been reached yet.

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