ByteDance establishes an AI safety team within its Seed division and plans to hire 10 researchers across China and the US to strengthen AI alignment and risk preparedness.
Meta has become one of Microsoft’s biggest AI customers, reportedly spending hundreds of millions annually and consuming trillions of tokens weekly through Azure.
ByteDance has launched Seedance 2.5, an AI video model supporting 50 multimodal inputs, 30-second video generation and advanced editing capabilities.
CapCut has partnered with Google Gemini to introduce conversational AI image editing features aimed at simplifying content creation workflows.
Huawei’s AI chips are seeing strong demand, with ByteDance and Alibaba reportedly placing orders amid global chip supply shifts.
ByteDance is exploring the development of an in-house AI processor and may partner with Samsung to strengthen its AI compute capabilities.
ByteDance’s Seedance 1.0 outperforms Google Veo 3 and OpenAI Sora in benchmark rankings, emerging as the top-rated AI model for video generation.
