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2025.08.01

16:20

Xiaomi App Store and ByteDance's one-stop AI Agent development platform KouZi have reached a cooperation agreement

Xiaomi App Store announced a partnership with Kouzi, a one-stop AI agent development platform under ByteDance, to enable one-click publishing of AI agents and further expand its AI agent distribution service ecosystem. This collaboration between Xiaomi App Store and Kouzi integrates their platforms. Developers can create and debug AI agents on the Kouzi development platform and publish them to the Xiaomi App Store with a single click, without any additional operational costs. Users can then easily access a wide range of AI services from the Kouzi development platform in a dedicated section of the App Store.

14:30

Xiaomi App Store and Kouzi Development Platform jointly open up the one-click publishing capability of intelligent entities

On August 1st, Xiaomi App Store announced a partnership with Kouzi, ByteDance's one-stop AI agent development platform, to enable one-click publishing of AI agents. After developers create and debug an agent on the Kouzi development platform, they can publish it to the Xiaomi App Store with a single click. Users can then easily access the platform's rich AI agent services in a dedicated section of the App Store, seamlessly integrating creation and usage. It is reported that Xiaomi App Store will collaborate with more AI agent platforms in the future to build an open, diverse, and sustainable AI agent content ecosystem.

13:31

China's robot football team won the championship of the humanoid group in the Robot Football World Cup for the first time

On August 1st, ByteDance Seed announced that the 2025 RoboCup Humanoid Division competition concluded in Salvador, Brazil. HumanoidKick, a humanoid robot motion algorithm developed in collaboration between the ByteDance Seed team and Professor Zhao Mingguo's team at Tsinghua University, helped the Tsinghua Vulcan team win the championship. This marks the first time a Chinese robot soccer team has won this category at the RoboCup.

2025.07.31

20:37

ByteDance's Seed team released a diffusion language model with an inference speed of 2146 tokens per second.

On July 31st, the ByteDance Seed team released Seed Diffusion Preview, an experimental diffusion language model. The team's goal, according to the team, is to systematically validate the feasibility of the discrete diffusion technology approach as a foundational framework for next-generation language models, using structured code generation as an experimental field. Experimental results show that Seed Diffusion Preview achieves an inference speed of 2146 tokens/s, a 5.4x increase compared to an autoregressive model of similar scale.

2025.07.29

20:24

ByteDance denies rumors about Doubao Car: no intelligent driving business plans

According to media reports, ByteDance will develop a "Doubao Car." This initiative will collaborate with ByteDance's Volcano Engine automotive cloud business to provide intelligent driving terminal solutions focused on the two key areas of "cockpit + intelligent driving" for smart cars, mirroring Huawei's HarmonyOS intelligent driving software solutions. Upon contacting officials, a representative from Volcano Engine stated that the online rumors about the "Doubao Car" are pure rumors. Volcano Engine provides an efficient algorithm training platform for numerous automotive clients and has no plans for its own intelligent driving business.

12:50

ByteDance donates 10 million yuan to aid disaster-stricken areas

On July 29th, ByteDance announced a donation of 10 million RMB. The donation, in partnership with the Shenzhen One Foundation, the Beijing Pinglan Foundation, the China Red Cross Foundation, and other charitable organizations, will support the hard-hit areas of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, providing emergency supplies such as hygiene products, housing, and children's supplies to address the shortage of supplies in some areas. Subsequently, the Beijing ByteDance Foundation will also focus on the needs of young people and the elderly in the disaster-stricken areas, supporting special projects such as the post-disaster Yitong Park and Yixiao School Program.

2025.07.28

17:00

Douyin: The online rumor that "Bytedance arbitrarily canceled its options" is not true

According to Douyin Blackboard, recently, we found that someone posted on social media that ByteDance arbitrarily cancelled their options after they left the company. The content of the relevant post is inconsistent with the facts, and the company will not arbitrarily deduct employees' options. After an internal investigation by the company, the relevant situation triggered the option deduction clause because the former employee violated the company's integrity management system and the option grant agreement he signed. The former employee is suspected of defrauding the company's cloud service resources, causing significant economic losses to the company, and has been taken criminal coercive measures by the police in May 2025 for suspected fraud. On July 16, 2025, the company deducted his options and sent him a deduction notice on July 25.

2025.07.24

13:03

ByteDance releases end-to-end simultaneous interpretation model Seed LiveInterpret 2.0

ByteDance's Seed team today officially released the end-to-end simultaneous interpretation model Seed LiveInterpret 2.0. It is reported that Seed LiveInterpret 2.0 is the first product-level Chinese-English simultaneous interpretation system with latency and accuracy close to human levels. While the quality of Chinese-English simultaneous interpretation reaches the industry's SOTA, it also achieves extremely low voice latency.

10:45

TikTok's revenue in 2024 will reach $23 billion, accounting for a record high proportion of ByteDance's revenue

The TikTok Application Report by the UK Business of Apps shows that TikTok's revenue in 2024 will increase by 42.8% year-on-year to US$23 billion, making it the fourth largest social application in terms of revenue in the world, second only to Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. According to the reporter, although ByteDance's net profit growth and profit margin both slowed down in 2024, the overseas business revenue mainly based on TikTok increased by 63% year-on-year, accounting for a quarter of ByteDance's total revenue, setting a record high. As of press time, ByteDance has not yet responded to the above data.

2025.07.21

18:57

ByteDance's Volcano Engine will launch a new digital human platform? ByteDance has no response yet

On July 21, it was reported that ByteDance's Volcano Engine is conducting closed beta testing of a new generation of digital human platform named "Chimera". Currently, the Chimera digital human platform adopts a targeted invitation model. During the invitation testing phase, the service is free of charge. The public beta may begin at the end of the month. ByteDance has not responded to this yet.

2025.07.16

14:48

Huang Renxun mentioned 11 Chinese companies in his Chinese speech

On July 16, Nvidia founder and CEO Huang Renxun appeared at the opening ceremony of the Chain Expo. In his speech, he mentioned Chinese companies such as Tencent, NetEase, Mihoyo, Game Science, ByteDance, DeepSeek, Alibaba, Meituan, MiniMax, Baidu, and Xiaomi. He said that China's super-fast innovation capabilities were created by researchers and entrepreneurs, and the sharing of models such as DeepSeek, Tencent, Alibaba, MiniMax, and Baidu has promoted the development and progress of global artificial intelligence.

09:30

ByteDance: No application has been submitted for the purchase of H20 chips

Recently, regarding the return of Nvidia H20 chips to the Chinese market, there have been reports that ByteDance and other companies are applying to purchase the chip. In response, a ByteDance official told reporters that no purchase application has been submitted and the relevant reports are inaccurate.

2025.07.15

19:01

Nvidia H20 chip returns to the Chinese market, Tencent and ByteDance may become the first buyers

In an interview with the media today, Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, announced, "The U.S. government has approved our export license and we can start shipping, so we will start selling H20 to the Chinese market. I am very much looking forward to shipping H20 soon, and I am very happy about it. This is very, very good news." Later, there were reports that Tencent and ByteDance applied to purchase Nvidia H20 chips. In response, Sina Technology sought confirmation from Tencent and ByteDance, but neither responded.

09:20

Bytedance is said to be developing mixed reality glasses, but no official response yet

It is reported that ByteDance is developing mixed reality glasses. According to several people familiar with the matter, ByteDance is developing a lightweight mixed reality device that looks like goggles. Currently, Meta is also developing a similar product and plans to release it in 2027. In this regard, ByteDance has not responded to the official request for confirmation.

00:00

Market news: ByteDance is developing mixed reality glasses to challenge Meta Platforms (META.O).

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