{"id":18833,"date":"2025-04-11T20:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T20:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-tiktoks-parent-bytedance-became-an-a-i-powerhouse\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T20:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T20:08:09","slug":"how-tiktoks-parent-bytedance-became-an-a-i-powerhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/how-tiktoks-parent-bytedance-became-an-a-i-powerhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"How TikTok\u2019s Parent, ByteDance, Became an A.I. Powerhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Chinese internet giant ByteDance has made some of the world\u2019s most popular apps: TikTok and, in China, Douyin and Toutiao.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the United States, TikTok claims 170 million users. But in China, about 700 million use the domestic version, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/25\/business\/china-tiktok-douyin.html\" title=\"\">Douyin<\/a>, and 300 million scroll the headlines on Toutiao, a news app. Every video that ByteDance\u2019s users watch or post gives the company another data point about how people use the internet. For years, ByteDance has applied that wealth of information to make its apps more appealing, improving its ability to recommend content to keep users hooked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">ByteDance is also using the data as the linchpin of a growing business in artificial intelligence. The company has invested billions of dollars in the infrastructure needed to power A.I. systems, building vast data centers in China and Southeast Asia and buying up advanced semiconductors. ByteDance is also on an A.I. hiring spree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">ByteDance is best known outside China for TikTok, an app so popular that <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/09\/technology\/tiktok-ban-global-legal-battles.html\" title=\"\">at least 20 governments<\/a> have adopted partial bans over concerns about its influence on national security and public opinion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Concern over how ByteDance uses data has driven lawmakers in Washington to try to force a sale of TikTok\u2019s U.S. operations. On Friday, President Trump extended a looming deadline by <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/04\/technology\/trump-tiktok-deadline-delay.html\" title=\"\">75 days<\/a> into mid-June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But in China all that data has helped ByteDance expand its business far beyond social media and gain an edge in the global race to build advanced A.I. technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cByteDance has all this data, all the time, from millions of users,\u201d said Wei Sun, a principal analyst in artificial intelligence at Counterpoint Research in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Officials in Beijing have pushed China\u2019s tech companies to pivot from entertainment apps to what the government sees as an existential goal: self-reliance in cutting-edge technologies that also have military applications, like semiconductors, supercomputers and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">ByteDance has embraced that mission. Last year, the company spent roughly $11 billion on infrastructure like data centers, networking equipment and computer chips, according to a report by Zheshang Securities, a Chinese financial firm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Biden administration set up rules to try to keep Chinese companies from getting access to those kinds of chips, particularly ones made by Nvidia, the Silicon Valley giant. But ByteDance has found ways to get the computing power it needs to train its systems \u2014 in part by using data centers outside China and most likely, analysts say, by buying chips made by Chinese chipmakers like Huawei and Cambricon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While these Chinese-made chips cannot do everything the Nvidia chips can do, they work well enough to help companies like ByteDance provide A.I. services to people and businesses in China. Chinese tech companies have been \u201cencouraged to adopt local options\u201d for buying chips, said Lian Jye Su, an analyst at Omdia, a market research firm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">All this spending has helped ByteDance make one of the most popular artificial intelligence apps in China. Its chatbot, Doubao, gained 60 million users within its first three months on the market last year. It was China\u2019s most popular chatbot, beating rivals made by Baidu and Alibaba-backed Moonshot, until <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/28\/business\/deepseek-owner-china-ai.html\" title=\"\">the start-up DeepSeek<\/a> released its own this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">ByteDance showed how closely connected its app ecosystem is with its A.I. efforts when it recently started allowing some users to chat with Doubao inside the Douyin app.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2021, ByteDance started Volcano Engine, a business that lets other companies pay to use the technologies that made TikTok, Douyin and Toutiao so addictive, like tools to analyze information and the algorithms that recommend videos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some of these services were natural applications of the technology that ByteDance developed for Douyin and TikTok, like filters that can make people appear much older or superimpose sparkly hearts on their faces. ByteDance used its experience making these filters to help companies like Haier and Hisense develop movement-tracking technology for gesture-controlled home appliances like smart televisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">GAC Group, one of China\u2019s largest makers of electric vehicles, is using Volcano Engine to translate and manage data for cars sold outside China. And Mercedes-Benz said last year that it would use Volcano Engine in its in-car voice assistant and navigation system in China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">ByteDance did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Company job postings show that ByteDance is hiring for hundreds of A.I.-related roles. The company recently directed its engineering team to focus on a milestone that tech companies like OpenAI, Google and DeepSeek are also chasing \u2014 making an A.I. system that is as smart as or smarter than humans, often referred to as artificial general intelligence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While many Chinese companies have started A.I. projects, a much smaller number have the resources to invest in the personnel and computing power needed to advance the technology. Some experts expect that a research team somewhere in the world will make this kind of system within the next year or two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Claire Fu<!-- --> contributed research from Seoul.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/11\/business\/tiktok-china-bytedance-ai.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese internet giant ByteDance has made some of the world\u2019s most popular apps: TikTok and, in China, Douyin and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[213,319,349,123,771,5893,124,118,240,5894,168],"class_list":["post-18833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-beijing-bytedance-technology-co-ltd","tag-china","tag-computers-and-the-internet","tag-deepseek-artificial-intelligence-co-ltd","tag-douyin-bytedance","tag-mobile-applications","tag-social-media","tag-tiktok-bytedance","tag-toutiao-chinese-news-platform","tag-united-states"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How TikTok\u2019s Parent, ByteDance, Became an A.I. 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