The Chinese giant for the Internet has made some of the most popular applications in the world: Tiktok, in China, Douyin and Toutiao.
In the United States, Tiktok demands 170 million users. But in China, about 700 million local version is used, DenwinAnd 300 million passes on toutiao, news application. Each video is given by BYTEDANCE users or company post another data point on how people use the Internet. For years, this bytedance is applied this wealth of information to make its applications more attractive, which improves its ability to recommend the content to maintain users.
Bytedance also uses data as the growing business set in artificial intelligence. The company has invested billions of dollars in the infrastructure needed to operate artificial intelligence systems, build extensive data centers in China and Southeast Asia and buy advanced semiconductors. BYDtedance is also an Amnesty International Employment.
It is better to be bytedance outside China for Tiktok, which is a very common application At least 20 government A partial ban on concerns about its impact on national security and public opinion.
I was concerned about how to use by bytedance for legislative data in Washington to try to sell US Tiktok operations. On Friday, President Trump extended a deadline waving on the horizon 75 days In mid -June.
But in China, all this data helped expand its business beyond social media and gain an advantage in the global race to build advanced AI technology.
“Bytedance has all these data, all the time, from millions of users,” said Wi -Sun, the lead analyst in artificial intelligence in Beijing.
Beijing officials have pushed technology companies in China to the axis of entertainment applications to what the government considers an existential goal: self -reliance in advanced technologies that also have military applications, such as semiconductors, conductors and artificial intelligence.
I embraced this task. Last year, the company spent approximately $ 11 billion on infrastructure such as data centers, network equipment and computer chips, according to a report issued by Zheshang Securities, a Chinese financial company.
The Biden administration has established bases to try to prevent Chinese companies from reaching these types of chips, especially those made by NVIDIA, the Silicon Valley giant. But bytedance has found ways to obtain the computing power it needs to train its systems – partially using databases outside China, and it is most likely, analysts say, by buying chips by Chinese chips such as Huawei and Cambricon.
Although these Chinese Chinese chips cannot do everything that NVIDIA chips can do, they work well enough to help companies such as Bytedance to provide artificial intelligence services for people and companies in China. Lian Ji Ji Soo, an analyst at the Market Research Company, said that Chinese technology companies “encouraged the adoption of local options” to buy chips.
All this spending has helped make one of the most popular artificial intelligence applications in China. Chatbot, Doubao, gained 60 million users during the first three months in the market last year. It was the most popular chat in China, and defeated the competitors that Bido and Moonshot supported by alibaba, even defeated Alibaba. Dibsic emerging This year was released.
Bytedance showed the extent to which the application’s ecosystem is connected closely with its efforts in artificial intelligence when I recently started allowing some users to chat with Doubao inside the Douyin application.
In 2021, began by Bytedance Engine Volcano, a company that allows other companies to pay to use the technologies that made Tiktok, Douyin and Toutiao cause addiction, such as tools to analyze information and algorithms that recommend videos.
Some of these services were natural applications for technology developed for Douyin and Tiktok, such as filters that could make people appear older or overwhelming hearts on their faces. Bytedance has used its experience in making these filters to help companies such as Haier and HISENSE to develop movement -tracking technology for gestures controlled by gestures such as smart TVs.
GAC GOUP, one of the largest electric car makers in China, uses the Volcano engine to translate and manage data for cars sold outside China. Mercedes -Benz said last year that it would use the volcano engine in the car sound and the navigation system in China.
He did not respond by attedance to request a comment.
The company’s jobs show that bytedance is employed for hundreds of prosecution -related roles. The company recently directed its engineering team to focus on a teacher that technology companies such as Openai, Google and Deepseek are also chasing – making an intelligent artificial intelligence system or more intelligent than humans, often referred to as artificial general intelligence.
While many Chinese companies have started artificial intelligence projects, much fewer have the resources needed to invest in employees and calculate the strength necessary to enhance technology. Some experts expect that the research team in the world will create this type of system during the next year or two.
Claire Fu Contribute to the search from Seoul.
