ByteDance

2025.08.26

19:25

ByteDance raises option price to $200.41 per share, setting a new record high

According to The Paper, ByteDance has again raised its options price to $200.41 per share (approximately RMB 1,433.23). This represents a new high compared to the previously announced repurchase price of $189.9 (approximately RMB 1,363.14) in April 2025. Public data indicates that ByteDance's options have increased more than seven times since 2019, with prices increasing nearly fivefold.

15:44

Doubao launches a minors mode, with related video display and other functions disabled by default

According to the Securities Times, ByteDance has learned that the Doubao app has officially launched a "minor mode." Previously, some users reported that Doubao's inclusion of short videos as references in Q&A results could distract some children from viewing the content. It is reported that in Minor Mode, features such as answering and displaying videos, browsing third-party websites, communicating with agents other than Doubao, and AI creation are disabled by default. However, learning and work-related functions such as translation, research, and in-depth research remain available.

2025.08.25

15:44

Feng Jiashi, head of ByteDance's Doubao visual basic research team, has resigned.

Feng Jiashi, head of ByteDance's Doubao large-scale model vision foundation research team, has reportedly recently left the company. Feng, who joined ByteDance in 2019, focused on computer vision and machine learning research, publishing over 400 papers on deep learning, object recognition, generative models, and machine learning theory.

13:51

ByteDance responds to online rumors about releasing AI glasses: The information is inaccurate

According to media reports, ByteDance is about to release a pair of AI glasses. The product solution is provided by RXKJ, the MCU is supplied by HXKJ, the SoC uses the Qualcomm AR1, and the entire device is manufactured by LQKJ. Sina Technology contacted officials for confirmation, and a ByteDance representative stated that the product is still in the early stages of exploration and has no current release plans. Hardware products involve extensive upstream and downstream supply chains, and online rumors are inaccurate. Investors are advised to be aware of the risks.

2025.08.21

14:04

ByteDance open-sources long text processing model Seed-OSS-36B

ByteDance's Seed team has open-sourced the Seed-OSS-36B series of large models, designed for long contexts, reasoning, agents, and general scenarios, with a maximum context length of up to 512k tokens.

09:41

The Science and Technology Innovation 50 Index rose by more than 2%, the A-share semiconductor sector strengthened, Centec Communications rose by more than 16%, Weice Technology rose by more than 10% after the performance, and stocks such as GigaDevice, Canxin Technology, and Amlogic Technology followed suit; VeriSilicon rose nearly 7% in early trading. ByteDance recently denied any cooperation with VeriSilicon on AI chips.

2025.08.20

14:57

VeriSilicon shares hit the daily limit and then crashed

VeriSilicon's stock price hit the daily limit but then crashed. On the news front, ByteDance denied the rumor that it had no AI chip-related cooperation with VeriSilicon.

14:56

ByteDance denies rumors: no AI chip cooperation with VeriSilicon

Recently, industry sources have reported that ByteDance is collaborating with VeriSilicon to design an advanced AI computing chip. In response, a ByteDance representative told a Securities Times reporter that ByteDance and VeriSilicon have no AI chip-related collaboration.

2025.08.04

17:39

ByteDance's 2026 campus recruitment has begun, with over 5,000 offers to be issued.

On August 4th, ByteDance officially launched its 2026 campus recruitment campaign. This campaign offers over 5,000 offers to 2026 graduates, covering eight key positions across R&D, product, and operations. Compared to ByteDance's 2025 campus recruitment, which boasted over 4,000 positions, this represents a significant expansion. Data shows a 23% year-over-year increase in R&D job postings, with the largest increases in algorithm, front-end, and client-side roles. Demand for non-R&D positions has also grown significantly, with plans to recruit over 1,500 people. Business teams such as TikTok, e-commerce, Volcano Engine, Lark, and Jianying are all releasing significant positions, with high hiring opportunities in popular fields like product management and data analysis. This recruitment campaign targets graduates graduating between September 2025 and August 2026. Applicants can submit their resumes through the ByteDance campus recruitment website () and receive two applications per applicant.

2025.08.01

16:20

Xiaomi App Store and ByteDance's one-stop AI Agent development platform KouZi have reached a cooperation agreement

Xiaomi App Store announced a partnership with Kouzi, a one-stop AI agent development platform under ByteDance, to enable one-click publishing of AI agents and further expand its AI agent distribution service ecosystem. This collaboration between Xiaomi App Store and Kouzi integrates their platforms. Developers can create and debug AI agents on the Kouzi development platform and publish them to the Xiaomi App Store with a single click, without any additional operational costs. Users can then easily access a wide range of AI services from the Kouzi development platform in a dedicated section of the App Store.

14:30

Xiaomi App Store and Kouzi Development Platform jointly open up the one-click publishing capability of intelligent entities

On August 1st, Xiaomi App Store announced a partnership with Kouzi, ByteDance's one-stop AI agent development platform, to enable one-click publishing of AI agents. After developers create and debug an agent on the Kouzi development platform, they can publish it to the Xiaomi App Store with a single click. Users can then easily access the platform's rich AI agent services in a dedicated section of the App Store, seamlessly integrating creation and usage. It is reported that Xiaomi App Store will collaborate with more AI agent platforms in the future to build an open, diverse, and sustainable AI agent content ecosystem.

13:31

China's robot football team won the championship of the humanoid group in the Robot Football World Cup for the first time

On August 1st, ByteDance Seed announced that the 2025 RoboCup Humanoid Division competition concluded in Salvador, Brazil. HumanoidKick, a humanoid robot motion algorithm developed in collaboration between the ByteDance Seed team and Professor Zhao Mingguo's team at Tsinghua University, helped the Tsinghua Vulcan team win the championship. This marks the first time a Chinese robot soccer team has won this category at the RoboCup.

2025.07.31

20:37

ByteDance's Seed team released a diffusion language model with an inference speed of 2146 tokens per second.

On July 31st, the ByteDance Seed team released Seed Diffusion Preview, an experimental diffusion language model. The team's goal, according to the team, is to systematically validate the feasibility of the discrete diffusion technology approach as a foundational framework for next-generation language models, using structured code generation as an experimental field. Experimental results show that Seed Diffusion Preview achieves an inference speed of 2146 tokens/s, a 5.4x increase compared to an autoregressive model of similar scale.

2025.07.29

20:24

ByteDance denies rumors about Doubao Car: no intelligent driving business plans

According to media reports, ByteDance will develop a "Doubao Car." This initiative will collaborate with ByteDance's Volcano Engine automotive cloud business to provide intelligent driving terminal solutions focused on the two key areas of "cockpit + intelligent driving" for smart cars, mirroring Huawei's HarmonyOS intelligent driving software solutions. Upon contacting officials, a representative from Volcano Engine stated that the online rumors about the "Doubao Car" are pure rumors. Volcano Engine provides an efficient algorithm training platform for numerous automotive clients and has no plans for its own intelligent driving business.

12:50

ByteDance donates 10 million yuan to aid disaster-stricken areas

On July 29th, ByteDance announced a donation of 10 million RMB. The donation, in partnership with the Shenzhen One Foundation, the Beijing Pinglan Foundation, the China Red Cross Foundation, and other charitable organizations, will support the hard-hit areas of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, providing emergency supplies such as hygiene products, housing, and children's supplies to address the shortage of supplies in some areas. Subsequently, the Beijing ByteDance Foundation will also focus on the needs of young people and the elderly in the disaster-stricken areas, supporting special projects such as the post-disaster Yitong Park and Yixiao School Program.

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