TikTok said the decisive edge in today’s AI race is not owning the biggest model, but running AI that is tightly optimized for real-world production—where latency, cost, safety, and shifting user behavior matter as much as accuracy.
Speaking Thursday UTC at “Metacon 2026,” a major AI conference co-hosted by TokenPost in Seoul, Kanchan Sarkar, an engineering manager at TikTok (owned by ByteDance), argued that ‘general-purpose’ models are only a s…
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