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ByteDance plans Meta Muse-like AI assistant to chase OpenAI
ByteDance reportedly plans to launch an AI assistant similar to Meta’s Muse in the coming weeks, as the TikTok owner looks to build on its video AI work and narrow the gap with OpenAI and Anthropic.
At a recent all-hands meeting, co-founder Zhang Yiming told staff that ByteDance would need until at least 2029 or 2030 to compete at the frontier of AI, according to people familiar with the matter.
He also said the company’s Seed models are pre-trained on far less data than those of frontier rivals.
ByteDance may spend up to US$70 billion on its AI push.
The company’s strongest position is in video generation through Seedance, while its last large language model update was Seed 2.1 in June.
ByteDance had reportedly raised its 2026 capital spending plan by at least 25%.
🔗 Source: Bloomberg
