Chinese giant Alibaba released Wan 2.1 and made it open-source: It's a text-to-video AI service similar to OpenAI's Sora.

ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, recently shared its research on a new artificial intelligence (AI) framework. Dubbed OmniHuman, it is a video-generation framework that can create realistic ...

Notable figures in the AI industry - as well as some politicians, investors and academics - were engaged in discussions ...

TikTok owner ByteDance said it has achieved a 1.71 times efficiency improvement in large language model (LLM) training, the latest Chinese tech company to achieve a breakthrough that could potentially ...

This month, ByteDance—parent company of TikTok—launched an AI video-generation model with the most realistic results we’ve ever seen. The model, called OmniHuman-1, promises video ...

Investors are keen on ByteDance's AI potential. ByteDance cofounder Zhang Yiming has become China’s richest man as investors bet on companies with AI potential. Zhang’s fortune has grown to $ ...

These include Google’s Veo 2 for YouTube, Meta’s AI Studio for Facebook and Instagram, and TikTok’s Symphony Avatars (as well as OmniHuman from TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance), plus ...

ByteDance's Doubao AI team has open-sourced COMET, a Mixture of Experts (MoE) optimization framework that improves large language model (LLM) training efficiency while reducing costs. Already ...

A former ByteDance executive has joined Shengshu AI as CEO, marking a significant hire by one of China's leading artificial intelligence (AI) video start-ups amid fierce competition for talent in ...

TL;DR: Broadcom's ByteDance AI accelerator project was canceled amid tightened US semiconductor restrictions on China. Broadcom has reportedly seen its huge ByteDance project canceled, after the ...

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Social-media giant ByteDance is seeking to leverage the popularity of its domestic short video app, Douyin, to widen the usage of the company's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Doubao.