ByteDance

2025.05.28

12:40

ByteDance sends latest internal email: will ban third-party AI development software such as Cursor and promote self-developed Trae as a replacement

ByteDance's security and risk control department issued an email saying that in order to prevent the risk of data leakage, third-party AI development software, including AI programming tools Cursor and Windsurf, will be disabled in batches internally from June 30, and ByteDance's programming assistant Trae will be used as an alternative. In March this year, ByteDance launched the domestic version of Trae, claiming it to be "the first AI native integrated development environment tool (AI IDE) in China." The previously released overseas version of Trae has launched a paid plan this week, and the Pro version charges $3/month for the first month.

2025.05.27

12:53

ByteDance: There is no situation of providing internship positions for children of large depositors of Industrial Bank

In response to the news circulating online today that "internship opportunities at ByteDance can be obtained by making large bank deposits", ByteDance's official recruitment account stated: The relevant rumors are not true, ByteDance does not provide internship positions for the children of large depositors of Industrial Bank, and recruitment of internship positions must meet the company's business recruitment needs.

2025.05.23

12:18

ByteDance warns partners: "zero tolerance" for corruption and bribery, and will never cooperate if found

ByteDance's official account released a "Dragon Boat Festival Compliance Tip for Business Partners" today, stating that ByteDance attaches great importance to compliance management, firmly practices the concept of honest business and transparent cooperation, and has "zero tolerance" for corruption and bribery. If a partner is found to have bribed ByteDance employees, or colluded with employees to seek improper benefits, the relevant partner will be included in the list of entities that will never cooperate, and ByteDance will no longer accept its services or products. The tip pointed out that ByteDance solemnly reminds: Please do not give gifts and cash gifts to ByteDance employees (including but not limited to rice dumpling gift boxes, cash, red envelopes, shopping cards, gift certificates, etc.); do not provide any inappropriate entertainment to ByteDance employees (including but not limited to frequent or luxurious dining, leisure and entertainment, travel, etc.).

10:33

Volcano Engine and Alibaba Cloud jointly hosted the "Firmware Technology Summit", ByteDance open-sourced and released the Cloud Firmware 3.0 solution

On the morning of May 23, the second Firmware Technology Summit, jointly initiated and hosted by Volcano Engine and Alibaba Cloud, co-organized by the Firmware Industry Technology Innovation Alliance, and co-participated by the China Electronics Standardization Institute, OCP (Open Compute Project) and OSFF (Open System Firmware Foundation), was successfully held in Changsha. With the core concept of "innovation, collaboration, and development", the summit attracted more than 50 companies, nearly 200 firmware technology developers, and industry experts from around the world to gather together to discuss the cutting-edge development and application practices of firmware technology. ByteDance officially open-sourced and released the Cloud Firmware 3.0 solution at this event. Ge Shijian introduced that the solution has been stably deployed in more than 20,000 production systems within Volcano Engine, and will continue to be developed and deployed in the future.

2025.05.20

09:54

Volcano Engine releases MCP Servers, now open source

Recently, Volcano Engine released the large model ecological square - MCP Servers, and announced that with the help of ByteDance's ecological capabilities, through the deep collaboration of "MCP Market (Tool Square) + Volcano Ark (Large Model Service) + Trae (Application Development Environment)", a full-link development closed loop from tool calling, model reasoning to application deployment is realized, helping developers to bid farewell to complex manual development processes in a "modular assembly" mode. It is reported that MCP Servers is like a "large model tool supermarket", integrating many high-quality MCP protocol adapter tools, covering high-frequency scenarios such as search, database, and business system API. There are cloud services such as Volcano Engine AI Data Lake LAS, as well as high-quality third-party ecological tools such as VariFlight (flight data) and Hande Precision Marketing (user behavior analysis). Developers do not need to write interface code, they can directly drag and drop the required tools to use. At present, MCP Servers has been open source, and enterprises can encapsulate their own tools according to the MCP protocol and upload and share them, realizing a virtuous cycle of "using ecology" and "building ecology", so that tool resources are continuously enriched.

2025.05.19

16:26

Byte AI smart headset function upgrade supports waking up independent English learning smart body

On May 19, Ola Friend, the AI intelligent headset under ByteDance Doubao, was upgraded. Users can directly use voice to wake up the independent English learning intelligent agent Owen for real-time conversation. Previously, Ola Friend only supported the awakening of the main intelligent agent "Doubao" by voice. It is understood that as an independent English foreign teacher intelligent agent customized for English oral communication and learning scenarios, Owen's question and answer logic and interaction mode are designed specifically around English learning needs. The intelligent agent has been used more than 9 million times on the Doubao App. After this upgrade, users can talk directly with Owen through the Ola Friend headset to practice spoken English.

2025.05.16

10:20

Market news: ByteDance expects revenue growth of approximately 20% in 2025.

10:11

ByteDance seeks 20% revenue growth by 2025

ByteDance is reportedly seeking to achieve 20% revenue growth by 2025.

2025.05.13

16:53

Giant Network and ByteDance's Volcano Engine launch AI cooperation

On May 13, Giant Network and Volcano Engine, a subsidiary of ByteDance, started cooperation in the field of AI. The social reasoning game "Space Killer" was connected to the Doubao big model to help upgrade its AI native game play. In addition, the Volcano Engine machine learning platform provides Giant Network with big model training and computing power resource guarantee, promoting the iterative optimization of its self-developed big model. Ding Chaofan, head of Giant Network's AI business department, said that in addition to the Doubao big model, "Original Journey" and "Space Killer" also connected to DeepSeek-R1 through Volcano Ark, using its full-stack AI service to improve the game interaction experience.

2025.05.10

20:47

ByteDance open-sources Deep Research project DeerFlow: can generate graphic reports, voice podcasts

The ByteDance technical team announced today that DeerFlow, a new DeepResearch open source project based on LangStack, has been officially open sourced on ByteDance's official GitHub organization.

09:02

ByteDance open-sources a Deep Research project

On May 10, the ByteDance technical team announced that DeerFlow, a new Deep Research open source project based on LangStack, was officially open sourced on ByteDance's official GitHub organization. In the demonstration video, the team demonstrated features including deep research, MCP integration, report AI-enhanced editing, and podcast generation.

2025.04.28

16:06

Report: Tencent, Alibaba, and ByteDance rush to buy computing resources

According to multiple independent sources, Tencent purchased GPU (graphics processing unit) computing resources worth about 2 billion yuan from ByteDance in the first quarter of this year. These resources are mainly NVIDIA H20 cards and servers. Tencent Yuanbao's current updates mainly use cards from ByteDance. In addition to Tencent, an insider said that Alibaba also placed a GPU order with ByteDance after DeepSeek became popular in the first quarter of this year.

2025.04.27

17:44

ByteDance launches Top Seed big model top talent plan 2026 campus recruitment

On April 27, ByteDance Seed officially launched the 2026 Top Seed Big Model Talent Campus Recruitment Plan. This year's Top Seed research topics include big language models, machine learning algorithms and systems, multimodal generation, multimodal understanding, speech and other directions, basically covering all areas of big model research. It is worth mentioning that this year's Top Seed emphasizes no restrictions on professional backgrounds, and pays more attention to research potential, hoping to find young researchers with strong technical beliefs and enthusiasm, excellent research capabilities, curiosity and drive.

2025.04.25

06:45

AI glasses become a new favorite among consumers, and listed companies are entering the market

Since the beginning of this year, artificial intelligence (AI) glasses have rapidly moved from concept to reality and have become the new favorite in the consumer market. Faced with this highly prosperous track, many brands have made efforts and intensively released smart glasses-related products. Brands such as Rokid, Snap, Baidu, Thunderbird Innovation, and XREAL continue to innovate and bring consumers AI glasses products with diverse functions and novel designs. At the same time, companies such as Samsung, OPPO, Huawei, Tencent, and ByteDance are also actively deploying AI glasses projects in an attempt to seize the initiative in this emerging market. According to Wellsenn XR forecast data, artificial intelligence + augmented reality (AR) technology is expected to develop to a mature stage, and global AI glasses shipments are expected to grow to 80 million pairs in 2030.

2025.04.24

11:26

Xiaohongshu will cancel the big and small weekly

On April 23, it was reported that Xiaohongshu announced the cancellation of the big and small week system, which will be implemented after the May Day holiday. An insider said that the cancellation of the big and small week system will affect income, "logically it will be reduced by 15% or 20%. Because two small weeks in a month are double wages, which is equivalent to getting 4 more days of wages." The big and small week system is a form of overtime, specifically referring to working 5 days a week in a "big week" and 6 days a week in a "small week". It was widely adopted by Internet companies. Previously, Kuaishou, ByteDance, etc. announced the cancellation of the big and small week system.

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