👀TikTok’s Parent ByteDance Quietly Builds Its AI Empire

AI is a battle that the TikTok's parent company can not afford to lose.

When people outside mainland China think of ByteDance, they think of TikTok—an app that propelled short video into omnipresent popularity and placed ByteDance at the heart of U.S.-China tensions.

But here's what you don't hear much about: ByteDance's AI. Unlike other Chinese tech giants like Alibaba and Baidu, whose AI models are often open-sourced or we…