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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.

2025.04.03

10:34

2024 Global Mobile Publisher Revenue TOP50: Tencent Remains at the Top

Sensor Tower's latest "2024 Global Mobile Publisher Revenue TOP50" list is officially out. In 2024, global consumers' payments in the mobile application market will exceed US$150 billion for the first time, a year-on-year increase of 13%; at the same time, the market's top competition is prominent, and the industry's innovation momentum is strong. Among the top ten, Tencent (No. 1) continues to top the list, and continues to maintain its leading position with its full ecological layout in games, social networking and other fields. ByteDance (No. 2) has relied on the TikTok ecosystem and global layout, and its revenue has surged by 38.2% year-on-year, ranking second. Google (No. 3) and Microsoft (No. 4) still maintain a solid position in the market, and Scopely (No. 5) has become the biggest dark horse of the year with a high growth rate of 57.1%.

2025.04.02

09:01

TikTok: The online rumor that "ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has obtained Singaporean citizenship" is untrue

According to the Douyin blackboard, Douyin officially announced on April 2 that the online rumor that "ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has become a Singaporean citizen" is false information.

2025.03.31

21:55

ByteDance relaxes recruitment age limit and plans to expand recruitment of young talents

ByteDance recently held an internal policy meeting, requiring that recruitment should "break through experience dependence" and recruit more outstanding young talents. This year, it plans to double the number of young talents recruited within three years of graduation, and maintain the proportion of social recruitment for more than three years at 70% of the annual social recruitment. The company emphasizes the essence of talent and does not limit job levels and salary increases based on years of work. Industry insiders analyzed that this move may be to attract more AI-related talents. ByteDance also continues to strengthen AI talent recruitment, recruiting top students around the world who are committed to creating breakthrough value with technology.

17:42

Trump claims there are many buyers interested in TikTok

TikTok's "sale or ban" "grace period" in the United States is approaching. On March 30 local time, US President Trump said that he would reach an agreement with TikTok's parent company ByteDance on the sale of this short video app with 170 million monthly active users in the United States before the April 5 deadline. According to Reuters on March 30, Trump told reporters on Air Force One that day that there were "many potential buyers" for the deal. "There is a lot of interest in TikTok," Trump added, "I hope to see TikTok survive." TikTok did not immediately comment on this.

2025.03.27

09:48

Trump says he is willing to lower tariffs on China in exchange for TikTok's "divestment agreement"

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he was willing to lower tariffs on China to facilitate the sale of TikTok by ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok. Trump's 10% tariff on Chinese imports took effect last month, and he raised the tariff by another 10% at the beginning of this month, which aroused strong dissatisfaction from China. China has repeatedly stated that the unilateral tariffs imposed by the United States violate WTO rules and undermine the multilateral trading system. Not only will it fail to solve its own problems, but it will also cause damage to Sino-US economic and trade cooperation and the normal international trade order. In April last year, the U.S. Congress passed a law requiring ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, to sell the app by January 19 this year on the grounds of so-called national security, otherwise the app will be banned in the United States. ByteDance has previously made it clear that it will not sell TikTok.

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