AI Mania Makes ByteDance Cofounder Zhang Yiming China’s Richest Person
ByteDance cofounder Zhang Yiming has become China’s richest man as investors bet on companies with AI potential.
Tencent heats up AI video-generation competition in China with new open-source product
Competition is heating up in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) video-generation technology in China, after internet ...
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Deepfake Chaos: From Taylor Swift to political hoaxes, what global media and research say
In fact, companies like ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, are exploring ways to use AI for good. The New York Post reported on their latest innovation, OmniHuman, an AI tool that can ...
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TikTok parent ByteDance funds forest conservation in Malaysia, home to its largest data centre outside China
Chinese firm ByteDance, the parent company of social media application ... keep our trees standing and what we can afford from the government is huge. We need RM2.1 billion (US$472.6 million) a year, ...
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ByteDance's custom chip made by Broadcom has been canceled, Broadcom to lose $2B to $3B
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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ByteDance appoints new leader for AI video tool Jimeng, considers DeepSeek integration
Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. Sign up Cao Dapeng, former head of PopAI at 01.AI, has ...
The Deepfake Deception: How AI is Rewriting Reality (and How to Fight Back)
The implementation of AI resulted in numerous positive outcomes, such as significant advancements in key technologies and the development of impressive tools that previously seemed impossible. However ...
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Bytedance’s TikTok to invest $8.8 billion in Thailand data centres, official says
BANGKOK (Reuters) – ByteDance’s TikTok will invest $8.8 billion in data centres in Thailand over five years, Helena Lersch, TikTok’s Vice President of Public Policy, said on Friday at an event in ...
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Donovan’s Deep Dives: The CCP’s dystopian AI plot to turn the world into China
While Hailuo can be very useful in creating propaganda, TikTok owner ByteDance’s just released OmniHuman-1, which is explicitly for deepfakes and is shockingly good. It is able to produce videos from ...
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Alibaba’s new Wan 2.1 text-to-video AI is unbelievable
A few days ago, ByteDance’s OmniHuman-1 AI impressed us with its capabilities. Don’t Miss: We finally know the secret sauce behind DeepSeek’s AI breakthroughs that shocked the world Chris ...
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Alibaba open-sources AI model for video and image generation
Alibaba open-sources its Wan 2.1 AI model, making its video and image-generation ... which it intends to make open-source upon full release. ByteDance launches OmniHuman, an AI that creates full-body ...