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2025.03.07

16:16

ByteDance releases anti-corruption notice: 353 people will be dismissed and 39 people will be held criminally responsible by 2024

ByteDance has issued an internal anti-corruption notice. In 2024, ByteDance dismissed 353 employees who violated the rules and handed over 39 employees to judicial authorities for criminal prosecution.

15:23

Boyan Technology stated on an interactive platform on March 7 that the company provides IT technical support services to ByteDance, and that ecological cooperation with the company in other dimensions has not yet been launched.

15:23

Boyan Technology: The company provides IT technical support services to ByteDance

08:49

DeepSeek makes history! It ranks second in the global AI application, and Doubao ranks tenth

At 3 am today, Andreessen Horowitz (abbreviated as a16z), a world-renowned investment fund and consulting company, released the 2025 Global 100 Generative AI Application Ranking. This list is divided into 50 Generative AI Applications (webpage) and 50 Generative AI (mobile version). DeepSeek ranked second in the web version, second only to ChatGPT. It took less than 2 months from obscurity to a blockbuster. It is worth mentioning that other well-known Chinese models also entered the list. ByteDance's Doubao ranked 10th; Dark Side of the Moon ranked 11th; Conch Video ranked 12th; Kuaishou Keling ranked 20th, all surpassing well-known products such as Sora, Midjourney, and Runway.

2025.03.06

10:31

Douyin plans to seek AI data labeling suppliers

According to ByteDance's procurement department, in order to meet the rapidly growing demand for AI data labeling, Douyin Group's content quality and data service platform plans to look for labeling suppliers, especially suppliers with rich vertical resources (such as medical, legal, education, etc.).

2025.03.05

07:13

ByteDance launches a new round of stock buyback plan with a valuation of approximately US$315 billion

Cailian Press quoted Reuters as saying that people familiar with the matter revealed that TikTok's parent company ByteDance launched a new stock repurchase plan for its U.S. employees this week, offering $189.90 per share. This price is 11% higher than the $171 per share in the stock repurchase plan a year ago, and higher than the $181 per share six months ago. Another person familiar with the matter said that in the latest stock repurchase plan, ByteDance is valued at approximately $315 billion.

2025.03.03

11:35

China's first AI native IDE: ByteDance releases domestic version of AI programming tool Trae

On the morning of March 3, ByteDance released the domestic version of the AI programming tool Trae. The model is equipped with doubao-1.5-pro and supports switching to the full-blooded version of DeepSeek R1&V3. This is the first AI native integrated development environment tool (AI IDE) in China, which can fully unleash the potential of AI, help developers at all stages to collaborate smoothly with AI, complete programming work faster and with higher quality, and improve development efficiency. Users can download and experience it through the official website of Trae China. Compared with IDE smart plug-ins, the native AI capabilities of the domestic version of Trae bring stronger context awareness, can understand the code of the entire project, and have full-scene processing capabilities, ensuring that code automatic completion, bug repair and other demand processing will be the optimal result of co-creation between humans and AI, helping developers better cope with complex technical challenges. According to the relevant person in charge of the domestic version of Trae, Trae has made optimizations such as adaptability for domestic development scenarios, and will also support model customization functions in the future. Users can access the corresponding model API according to their preferences.

07:53

Zhongyuan Securities: It is recommended to pay attention to investment opportunities in the domestic memory industry chain

Zhongyuan Securities Research Report stated that factors such as memory manufacturers' production cuts, smartphone inventory liquidation, AI and DeepSeek effects will boost NAND Flash demand, and the oversupply situation is expected to ease. According to TrendForce's forecast, the supply and demand structure of the NAND Flash market is expected to improve significantly in the second half of 2025, and NAND Flash prices are expected to rebound in the second half of 2025. Internet companies such as Alibaba and ByteDance continue to increase capital expenditures related to AI infrastructure construction. The demand for domestic substitution of AI and memory is expected to drive domestic memory manufacturers to continuously increase their market share. It is recommended to pay attention to investment opportunities in the domestic memory industry chain.

2025.02.27

20:11

Narada Power: The company's data center has a full order book and orders are coming in recently

Narada Power released an investor relations activity record sheet announcement stating that the company's data center solutions have successfully covered mainstream data center customers at home and abroad. In China, the company has established long-term cooperation with many large Internet companies, operators and financial institutions such as GDS, ByteDance, Alibaba, Baidu, JD.com, China Mobile, China Telecom, Agricultural Bank of China, and China Construction Bank; overseas, the company was selected as the preferred supplier of non-US domestic brand batteries for large data centers in the United States, and successfully entered the high-end market of large data management centers in Asia Pacific, Latin America, etc., and has data center applications in Europe, the United States, Southeast Asia and other places. At present, the company has a full order book, and orders have been continuously landed recently.

08:12

ByteDance's Wukong browser has officially connected to the DeepSeek R1 model.

08:06

ByteDance's Wukong browser integrates DeepSeek model

Wukong Browser under ByteDance has officially connected to the DeepSeek R1 model. Currently, the product includes two large models, Doubao and DeepSeek. Industry insiders believe that the App's access to DeepSeek may pave the way for Douyin to access DeepSeek later, but the possibility that Douyin will access its own deep model is not ruled out. ByteDance has not yet responded to this statement.

2025.02.26

08:18

CITIC Securities: Domestic cloud giants are accelerating AI development, and AIDC leaders are benefiting greatly

According to a research report by CITIC Securities, since 2025, domestic AI big models have accelerated technological leaps through algorithm and engineering innovation. The low-cost DeepSeek -R1 has comparable reasoning capabilities to OpenAI o1; Alibaba has released the 100 billion-level MoE architecture model Qwen2.5-Max; Doubao has relied on ByteDance's ecological advantages to improve model capabilities; Tencent's Hunyuan big model has been deeply integrated into WeChat and other business scenarios. The progress of AI models + the explosion of AI demand have driven the overall improvement of Capex of domestic cloud giants. AIDC is the core foundation of AI computing power. At present, the scarcity of AIDC in first-tier cities is prominent, and leading companies with a large reserve of high-quality resources are expected to usher in explosive growth in demand.

2025.02.25

22:25

ByteDance's AI video generation product Dream is considering integrating with DeepSeek

ByteDance's AI video generation product Jimeng recently had a new mobile head, Cao Dapeng, the former head of Zero One Thing PopAI. After joining, Cao Dapeng reported to Zhang Nan, the head of Jianying. At the same time, Jimeng is also considering using DeepSeek. Previously, Feishu within the ByteDance system has used DeepSeek. Around the Spring Festival, the number of Jimeng users grew rapidly. According to the third-party monitoring platform QuestMobile, Jimeng had a weekly active user base of about 760,000 at the end of December last year, and by mid-February it was close to 2 million, an increase of nearly 3 times in one and a half months.

19:59

DeepSeek drives up demand for low-cost AI models, Nvidia H20 chip orders surge

According to a Reuters report on February 25, Nvidia's H20 artificial intelligence (AI) chip orders in China have increased significantly due to the increased demand of Chinese companies for DeepSeek's low-cost AI model. The report said that the H20 chip was designed by Nvidia for the Chinese market to comply with US export control regulations. Two people familiar with the matter said that since DeepSeek attracted global attention last month, Chinese companies Tencent, Alibaba and ByteDance have "significantly increased" orders for H20. In addition to their internal needs for advanced AI chips, the three technology giants also provide cloud computing services to enable other companies to obtain and use AI tools. According to the report, a source from a server manufacturer pointed out that small and medium-sized enterprises in industries such as medical and education are also purchasing AI servers equipped with DeepSeek models and Nvidia's H20 chips. The source also said that previously only financial and telecommunications companies would purchase servers with AI computing systems.

15:54

ByteDance Doubao tested the deep thinking model on a small scale, but it was not connected to DeepSeek

Doubao, the AI assistant of ByteDance, is testing the deep thinking model on a small scale, but it is not connected to the DeepSeek model. According to the relevant person in charge of Doubao, the current test is different experimental versions of its own deep thinking model. The reporter found that the entrance to the "deep thinking" function is not displayed on the Doubao dialogue page, but after the grayed-out users ask different questions, the thinking chain will be displayed in the reply generated by Doubao.

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