ByteDance Quietly Drops a New Large Language Model With Superior Visual Chops, Escalating the AI Arms Race With OpenAI and Google

ByteDance Quietly Drops a New Large Language Model With Superior Visual Chops, Escalating the AI Arms Race With OpenAI and Google

ByteDance, the Beijing-based parent company of TikTok, has released a new large language model that boasts significantly improved visual understanding capabilities, marking another aggressive move by the Chinese tech giant to establish itself as a formidable force in the global artificial intelligence competition. The model’s launch comes at a time when the race to build multimodal AI systems — those capable of processing text, images, video, an…