ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, has earmarked over 150 billion yuan ($20.64 billion) in capital expenditure for this year, much of which will be centred on artificial intelligence, two people briefed on the matter said.

TikTok owner ByteDance on Wednesday released an update to its flagship AI model as a global race intensified to create AI models capable of tackling complex problems.

OpenAI has launched Operator, a largely autonomous AI agent designed to take your simple text prompts and turn them into real-world tasks completed via the internet. In theory, you can ask it to do almost anything that's possible via a web browser. In practice, early users seem to be finding the results rather hit and miss.

UI-TARS understands graphical user interfaces (GUIs), applies reasoning and takes autonomous, step-by-step action.

An uproar with a popular Kindle competitor e-reader has showcased how the use of Chinese AI models in U.S. products could unwittingly spread Chinese propaganda.

A proposal document viewed by CNBC, which was shared with ByteDance and prospective new investors, detailed the creation of a new U.S. holding company, "NewCo."

Social-media giant ByteDance, China's most valuable unicorn, on Thursday unveiled its Seed Edge initiative, a long-term artificial intelligence (AI) research programme that is expected to shore up the TikTok owner's efforts in the fast-developing technology.

The dependency dance between AI pioneer OpenAI and the Microsoft Azure cloud and the application software divisions of its parent company are fascinating

TikTok parent ByteDance has launched an updated version of Doubao, China’s most popular consumer-facing artificial intelligence (AI) app, as the tech giant accelerates AI development despite US export restrictions on advanced chips.

TikTok owner ByteDance has released upgrades to its large language model, which powers its AI chatbot, marking the social media giant's latest efforts to lead the global AI race. ByteDance's Doubao-1.5-Pro large language model demonstrated strong performance across global evaluation tests, the company said on its official WeChat account.

TikTok owner ByteDance is reportedly still searching ... infrastructure project through a joint investment with OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank. Trump called the investment “a resounding ...

ByteDance's Doubao 1.5 Pro follows the success of the AI company DeepSeek, which surprised the global tech community by introducing its own efficient AI model last year.