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Every AI story we track on Bytedance — 44 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked back to the publisher that reported it.

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This week

Social Media8 min read

China’s Regulators Take Aim at “AI Boyfriends”

IEEE Spectrum

ByteDance Joins AI Elite in Race to Perfect World Models

Covered by 2 sources

This month

Finance4 min read

ByteDance raises $29.6bn, Asia’s second-biggest loan this year, and pays less for it

The Next Web
Video Generation5 min read

As That Whole ‘Tilly Norwood’ Thing Peters Out, AI Acting Achieves Unsettling Ubiquity on Chinese Phone Screens

Gizmodo
Agents1 min read

ByteDance Launches AI Office Product "Doubao Work"

Hacker News
Chips & Compute7 min read

Inner Mongolia signs $27bn of AI computing projects

The Next Web
AI Research5 min read

Meta pays Microsoft hundreds of millions a year to rent AI models

The Next Web
Chips & Compute2 min read

China reportedly allows ByteDance and Tencent to import 10,000 H200 chips

Engadget
Chips & Compute4 min read

Nvidia’s H200 finally reaches Chinese buyers, though maybe not mainland China

The Next Web
AI Research2 min read

ByteDance agrees to reel in its AI models to protect Hollywood IPs

Covered by 2 sources
Dev5 min read

ByteDance Seed and Tsinghua AIR Introduces CUDA Agent: A Large-Scale Agentic RL System for CUDA Kernel Generation

MarkTechPost
AI Research6 min read

Beijing is forcing a mass breakup with AI lovers

Rest of World
Social Media4 min read

China bans AI companions, forcing millions to break up with virtual partners

Hacker News

An activist investor says the market has decided Lionsgate is an AI casualty. It wants the studio to prove otherwise or sell.

The Next Web

ByteDance Seed Introduces SeedRealtime: a Native Audio-Visual Full-Duplex LLM That Watches, Listens and Speaks in One Model

MarkTechPost
Machine Learning2 min read

ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic

Ars Technica
Video Generation2 min read

Seedance 2.5 now available on Vercel AI Gateway

Vercel

Sources: ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming told employees at an AI team all-hands in July that the company won't use model distillation to accelerate capabilities (The Information)

Techmeme
Education2 min read

Seedance is making a fresh push into education with study app Gauth — starting with AI animated lessons

Business Insider

ByteDance quietly makes $4bn a year from AI. It just broke up an app to make more.

The Next Web

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 (Financial Times)

Techmeme
Image Generation4 min read

The AI that took their jobs is now renting their faces, for $15

The Next Web
Image Generation6 min read

In China, people are renting out their faces to AI

Rest of World
Video Generation5 min read

Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over

The Verge
AI Research4 min read

China weighs export controls on its own AI models and chips, FT reports

The Next Web
Chips & Compute3 min read

China is rebuilding the smartphone around AI agents. ZTE’s NaviX sold out in hours.

The Next Web
Agents4 min read

Doubao’s AI companions are gone. Users get 3 months to screenshot what is left.

The Next Web
Dev4 min read

Beijing flagged Claude Code as a back door, and Chinese coding tools are lining up to take its place

The Next Web
Chips & Compute4 min read

Iluvatar CoreX seeks to raise $850m as China’s AI-chip rally lifts its shares

The Next Web
Agents3 min read

ByteDance and Alibaba kill custom AI companions as China’s new rules bite

The Next Web

Qualcomm in talks to design custom chips for ByteDance

The Next Web

ByteDance seeks a record $20bn offshore loan to fund its AI build-out

The Next Web

ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.5, a 30-second native 4K AI video model that accepts 50 reference inputs

The Next Web

ByteDance is Microsoft’s biggest AI customer, even as Washington treats Chinese AI as a threat

The Next Web

ByteDance is in talks to buy AI chips from China’s Iluvatar CoreX

The Next Web

ByteDance and Oracle are using Arm’s in-house AGI CPU, completing the hyperscaler-x86 exit

The Next Web

ByteDance is building its own CPUs on Arm and RISC-V to feed its AI infrastructure

The Next Web

The Qualcomm-ByteDance ASIC deal works around US export controls by design

The Next Web

The company that built TikTok’s algorithm is now designing drugs for diseases pharma called undruggable

The Next Web

ByteDance adds watermarking and IP guardrails to Seedance 2.0 as it begins cautious global rollout

The Next Web

ByteDance’s new AI video generation model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, comes to CapCut

TechCrunch

ByteDance reportedly pauses global launch of its Seedance 2.0 video generator

TechCrunch

ByteDance’s Controversial AI Video Model Reportedly on Hold Globally Due to Copyright Disputes

Gizmodo

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