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2025.06.18

12:14

ByteDance Seed team and BYD Lithium Battery will jointly build an AI+ high-throughput joint laboratory

On June 11, the Volcano Engine Force Conference announced that ByteDance Seed and Volcano Engine will deepen cooperation with BYD Lithium Battery, and jointly explore AI for Science combined with high-throughput experiments through joint laboratories and other forms to accelerate the development of lithium batteries. In the future, the ByteDance Seed team and BYD Lithium Battery will jointly build an "AI+High-throughput Joint Laboratory" to tackle issues such as fast charging, life and safety of power batteries. At the same time, both parties will also explore more scenarios for AI technology in battery development to accelerate the discovery of new materials and new formulas.

2025.06.12

14:26

ByteDance: AI development tool TRAE has exceeded one million monthly active users

At the 2025 Spring Volcano Engine FORCE Power Conference, Bytedance Technology Vice President Hong Dingkun revealed the latest user data of TRAE: the overall monthly active users have exceeded 1 million. In January this year, Bytedance officially launched the first Chinese AI IDE "TRAE" in China, providing efficient AI Coding services to domestic developers through intelligent code completion, local code generation, natural language programming and other functions.

2025.06.11

10:30

Liang Ruobo of ByteDance: The current stage of AI development is the "first 500 meters of a marathon"

On June 11, Volcano Engine FORCE2025 Power Conference was held in Beijing. Liang Rubo, CEO of ByteDance, said that it is necessary to promote good technologies and let customers use them in depth, which is very important for ByteDance to maintain its technological competitiveness. "We feel more and more deeply that AI development is still in its early stages, and it is only the first 500 meters of a marathon."

2025.06.06

15:56

ByteDance releases image editing model SeedEdit 3

On June 6, ByteDance's Seed team officially released the image editing model SeedEdit 3. It is reported that the model can process and generate 4K images.

10:45

Li Tong, head of ByteDance's content quality center, resigns

Reporters learned that Li Tong, head of ByteDance's content quality center and deputy editor-in-chief of Toutiao, recently announced his resignation.

2025.06.05

14:48

ByteBrain team proposes a second-level reasoning reinforcement learning VMR system

On June 5, the ByteDance technical team published a post on its official WeChat account stating that the ByteBrain team led by ByteDance, in collaboration with UC Merced and UC Berkeley, proposed VMR²L and developed a VMR system based on deep reinforcement learning. While maintaining near-optimal performance, the inference time was compressed to 1.1 seconds, successfully achieving the unity of system performance and industrial deployability. This work has been published at the top system conference EuroSys25. The two co-first authors of this article are interns of the ByteBrain team of ByteDance. Their research focuses on the long-neglected but critical virtual machine rescheduling (VMR) problem.

2025.06.04

08:29

ByteDance's business in Hong Kong is developing rapidly: Douyin's monthly active users increased by more than 60%, and BytePlus accelerated its layout in the AI field

In the past two years, ByteDance's business in Hong Kong has developed rapidly. The author learned from an informed source that as of now, Douyin APP has more than 3 million monthly active users in Hong Kong, a figure that has increased by 147% from the end of 2022 and more than 60% from the same period in 2024, which means that nearly 40% of Hong Kong's permanent population will use Douyin APP every month. In addition, ByteDance is also accelerating its layout in the field of AI (artificial intelligence) in Hong Kong. BytePlus, a cloud computing and AI solution provider under the company, officially launched a local data center in Hong Kong in October 2024, providing cross-platform multi-cloud solutions for local companies, including computing, storage, network databases and other cloud infrastructure services. On May 15, 2025, BytePlus and "Hong Kong 1" jointly organized BytePlus Day, and with the theme of "Future Exploration of AI Cloud Technology", shared local enterprise upgrade and transformation cases to help small and medium-sized enterprises fully embrace the new era of AI.

2025.06.03

16:50

Douyin APP has more than 3 million monthly active users in Hong Kong, China

As of now, Douyin APP has more than 3 million monthly active users in Hong Kong, China, an increase of 147% from the end of 2022 and more than 60% from the same period in 2024. Nearly 40% of Hong Kong's permanent population uses Douyin APP every month. In addition, ByteDance is also accelerating its AI layout in Hong Kong, China. Its cloud computing and AI solution provider BytePlus launched a local data center in Hong Kong in October 2024.

2025.05.28

12:40

ByteDance sends latest internal email: will ban third-party AI development software such as Cursor and promote self-developed Trae as a replacement

ByteDance's security and risk control department issued an email saying that in order to prevent the risk of data leakage, third-party AI development software, including AI programming tools Cursor and Windsurf, will be disabled in batches internally from June 30, and ByteDance's programming assistant Trae will be used as an alternative. In March this year, ByteDance launched the domestic version of Trae, claiming it to be "the first AI native integrated development environment tool (AI IDE) in China." The previously released overseas version of Trae has launched a paid plan this week, and the Pro version charges $3/month for the first month.

2025.05.27

12:53

ByteDance: There is no situation of providing internship positions for children of large depositors of Industrial Bank

In response to the news circulating online today that "internship opportunities at ByteDance can be obtained by making large bank deposits", ByteDance's official recruitment account stated: The relevant rumors are not true, ByteDance does not provide internship positions for the children of large depositors of Industrial Bank, and recruitment of internship positions must meet the company's business recruitment needs.

2025.05.23

12:18

ByteDance warns partners: "zero tolerance" for corruption and bribery, and will never cooperate if found

ByteDance's official account released a "Dragon Boat Festival Compliance Tip for Business Partners" today, stating that ByteDance attaches great importance to compliance management, firmly practices the concept of honest business and transparent cooperation, and has "zero tolerance" for corruption and bribery. If a partner is found to have bribed ByteDance employees, or colluded with employees to seek improper benefits, the relevant partner will be included in the list of entities that will never cooperate, and ByteDance will no longer accept its services or products. The tip pointed out that ByteDance solemnly reminds: Please do not give gifts and cash gifts to ByteDance employees (including but not limited to rice dumpling gift boxes, cash, red envelopes, shopping cards, gift certificates, etc.); do not provide any inappropriate entertainment to ByteDance employees (including but not limited to frequent or luxurious dining, leisure and entertainment, travel, etc.).

10:33

Volcano Engine and Alibaba Cloud jointly hosted the "Firmware Technology Summit", ByteDance open-sourced and released the Cloud Firmware 3.0 solution

On the morning of May 23, the second Firmware Technology Summit, jointly initiated and hosted by Volcano Engine and Alibaba Cloud, co-organized by the Firmware Industry Technology Innovation Alliance, and co-participated by the China Electronics Standardization Institute, OCP (Open Compute Project) and OSFF (Open System Firmware Foundation), was successfully held in Changsha. With the core concept of "innovation, collaboration, and development", the summit attracted more than 50 companies, nearly 200 firmware technology developers, and industry experts from around the world to gather together to discuss the cutting-edge development and application practices of firmware technology. ByteDance officially open-sourced and released the Cloud Firmware 3.0 solution at this event. Ge Shijian introduced that the solution has been stably deployed in more than 20,000 production systems within Volcano Engine, and will continue to be developed and deployed in the future.

2025.05.20

09:54

Volcano Engine releases MCP Servers, now open source

Recently, Volcano Engine released the large model ecological square - MCP Servers, and announced that with the help of ByteDance's ecological capabilities, through the deep collaboration of "MCP Market (Tool Square) + Volcano Ark (Large Model Service) + Trae (Application Development Environment)", a full-link development closed loop from tool calling, model reasoning to application deployment is realized, helping developers to bid farewell to complex manual development processes in a "modular assembly" mode. It is reported that MCP Servers is like a "large model tool supermarket", integrating many high-quality MCP protocol adapter tools, covering high-frequency scenarios such as search, database, and business system API. There are cloud services such as Volcano Engine AI Data Lake LAS, as well as high-quality third-party ecological tools such as VariFlight (flight data) and Hande Precision Marketing (user behavior analysis). Developers do not need to write interface code, they can directly drag and drop the required tools to use. At present, MCP Servers has been open source, and enterprises can encapsulate their own tools according to the MCP protocol and upload and share them, realizing a virtuous cycle of "using ecology" and "building ecology", so that tool resources are continuously enriched.

2025.05.19

16:26

Byte AI smart headset function upgrade supports waking up independent English learning smart body

On May 19, Ola Friend, the AI intelligent headset under ByteDance Doubao, was upgraded. Users can directly use voice to wake up the independent English learning intelligent agent Owen for real-time conversation. Previously, Ola Friend only supported the awakening of the main intelligent agent "Doubao" by voice. It is understood that as an independent English foreign teacher intelligent agent customized for English oral communication and learning scenarios, Owen's question and answer logic and interaction mode are designed specifically around English learning needs. The intelligent agent has been used more than 9 million times on the Doubao App. After this upgrade, users can talk directly with Owen through the Ola Friend headset to practice spoken English.

2025.05.16

10:20

Market news: ByteDance expects revenue growth of approximately 20% in 2025.

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