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Tuesday 6 January 2026
Why China smartphone brands are turning to ByteDance's Doubao to break Apple-Huawei's hold on premium phones
Several Chinese smartphone brands are moving closer to Doubao, ByteDance's LLM platform, accelerating partnerships tied to AI smartphones. The shift reflects mounting pressure from...
Friday 2 January 2026
Meta finalizes Butterfly Effect acquisition, eyes Manus as monetization model
Meta announced on December 30, 2025, that it had acquired Butterfly Effect, the company behind the AI application, Manus. Compared to nearly two years ago, when ByteDance attempted...
Friday 2 January 2026
ByteDance plans US$14B Nvidia H200 chip purchase in 2026
ByteDance is reportedly preparing to invest about CNY100 billion (US$14.3 billion) in AI chips in 2026, primarily purchasing AI processors from Nvidia. This planned spending exceeds...
Wednesday 31 December 2025
ByteDance balances Nvidia, Huawei chips in China's localization squeeze

ByteDance is planning to procure a mix of Nvidia H200 accelerators and Huawei Technologies Ascend chips to meet its growing artificial...

Monday 29 December 2025
ByteDance's speed-first approach exposes a split with Apple's ecosystem control
The development paths for artificial intelligence (AI) integration in smartphones are diverging as ByteDance extends its collaborations with multiple brands, while technology giants...
Wednesday 24 December 2025
ByteDance advances AI phone partnerships to secure legal identity system for AI agents
Following ByteDance's early December 2025 launch of the Doubao AI Phone with Nubia, a ZTE subsidiary, Jiemian News and National Business Daily reported that the...
Tuesday 23 December 2025
ByteDance reportedly to increase 2026 capex with major focus on AI chips
ByteDance is preparing to raise its capex to CNY160 billion (approx. US$22.70 billion) in 2026, allocating over half of this amount, CNY85 billion, towards purchasing artificial intelligence...
Friday 19 December 2025
TikTok signs binding deal to create US joint venture controlled by American investors
TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, have signed binding agreements to create a new US-based joint venture that will be majority-owned and controlled by American investors, TikTok...
Monday 1 December 2025
PaleBlueDot AI seeks US$300m loan for Nvidia chips
US AI company PaleBlueDot AI is reportedly seeking a US$300 million loan to help Chinese social media platform RedNote (Xiaohongshu) use Nvidia's high-end AI chips through a data...
Saturday 29 November 2025
Chinese AI giants bypass US chip curbs with Southeast Asian compute hubs
China's top technology companies are shifting their LLM training to overseas data centers as Washington tightens controls on advanced AI chips and Beijing orders domestic firms to...
Thursday 27 November 2025
Beijing reportedly bans ByteDance from using Nvidia GPUs in new data centers
Beijing authorities have reportedly imposed strict restrictions on high-end semiconductor imports, prohibiting ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, from deploying Nvidia GPUs...
Saturday 8 November 2025
Anthropic bans Chinese-controlled entities from accessing Claude models
US AI startup Anthropic has enforced a new policy prohibiting Chinese-controlled entities from using its Claude series models, prompting ByteDance's Singapore-based IDE platform Trae...
Monday 27 October 2025
As Huawei stumbles, ByteDance quietly rewrites China’s AI cloud order
Huawei Cloud CEO Zhang Ping'an and several top executives were recently demoted and had their salaries reduced, officially due to "performance falsification." The punishment, however,...
Thursday 23 October 2025
ByteDance founder breaks silence with a return tied to AI strategy
First, it was Jack Ma, followed by Zhang Yiming. Since early 2025, the quiet reappearances of these two iconic Chinese tech founders have reignited public curiosity and debate, highlighting...
Thursday 23 October 2025
ByteDance's Doubao tops DeepSeek as China's leading AI app

ByteDance's large language model (LLM) Doubao (Cici) has quickly emerged as an unexpected front-runner in China's generative AI race....