Financial Times ·
ByteDance is pretraining an AI model with up to 10T parameters, roughly 3x larger than Kimi K3 and larger than the 8T estimate for Anthropic's Mythos 5
TikTok owner training a model three times larger than Moonshot's Kimi K3
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Arjun Kharpal / CNBC ·
SoftBank reports Q1 net profit down 18% YoY to ~$2.2B, above ~$761M est., an ~$8.2B gain on its Intel stake, and Vision Fund up $1.7B due to its ByteDance stake
SoftBank on Thursday reported profit for its fiscal first quarter that beat market expectations, driven by a huge gain on its stake in Intel …
The Information ·
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
ByteDance won't resort to distillation as a shortcut to advancing its AI model capabilities, even if that means …
Reuters ·
ByteDance is in talks with Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX to purchase AI inference GPUs, and is also considering a deal to buy Baidu's Kunlunxin chips
Chinese technology company ByteDance is in talks with Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX (9903.HK) to purchase AI chips for inference work …
The Information ·
ByteDance has partnered with chipmaker InnoStar to develop an AI inference chip modeled after Groq's LPUs, which are built to run AI models at low cost
TikTok owner ByteDance is developing a new chip to run artificial intelligence models as part of an aggressive expansion of its homegrown AI infrastructure.
Bloomberg ·
ByteDance is discussing up to $70B of 2026 capex as it builds out data centers and other AI infrastructure, underwritten by its ~$50B profit in 2025
ByteDance Ltd., the developer of TikTok and a leading force in artificial intelligence, is planning to sharply increase …
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times ·
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 …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch ·
ByteDance launches its Dreamina Seedance 2.0 audio and video model in its CapCut editing platform, supporting clips up to 15 seconds across six aspect ratios
OpenAI may be dialing back its efforts in the video generation market with the shutdown of its Sora app, but ByteDance …