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All-in on AI: what TikTok creator ByteDance did next
ByteDance's Doubao chatbot surpasses 100 million daily users while the company invests billions in AI chips and infrastructure to expand globally.
- This month, ByteDance is pivoting to AI with Doubao, now over 100 million daily users, led by Alex Zhu, and Seedance 2.0, as the company shifts from TikTok.
- ByteDance's strategic shift this month is driven by regulatory pressure, with the European Commission saying TikTok's 'addictive features' breached rules and a January majority‑American‑owned joint venture now runs TikTok's US business with ByteDance holding under 20 percent.
- ByteDance has the biggest AI team and pays salaries two to three times the market average, while Doubao models process more than 50 trillion tokens daily.
- Sellers such as Lee report using Doubao to reduce team sizes from more than a dozen to four to five, as Tencent and Alibaba's promotions pushed chatbots to the top of Apple's charts.
- ByteDance could face data‑governance and geopolitical hurdles as it expands AI services, analysts warn, with QuestMobile's analyst calling the move 'a well-considered decision in response to the evolving circumstances'.
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