China's tech giant ByteDance is accelerating its push into custom AI chips. According to South China Morning Post, sources say the company aims to finalize the design of its next-generation in-house CPU by early 2027, with mass production and broader deployment targeted for the second half of the ye...

ByteDance, the owner of TikTok and one of China’s largest AI players, is reportedly moving into CPU development as inference demand reshapes AI infrastructure needs. According to Reuters, sources said ByteDance is developing central processing units (CPUs) to support its growing AI infrastructure ...

China is rumored to roll out new AI models during the Lunar New Year holiday in February. According to ijiwei, sources say that ByteDance and Alibaba are preparing to launch a new generation of flagship AI models around the period. Previously, EE Times China noted that recent updates to DeepSeek’s...

Following reports that NVIDIA is set to start shipping H200 chips to China by mid-February next year, the country’s top tech firms appear to be accelerating their AI investments. The Financial Times reports that ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, is preparing to boost its AI spending in 2026, w...

According to MoneyDJ, citing Nikkei, there are now six “hectocorn” companies worldwide (referring to unlisted firms valued at over USD 100 billion). As of early September, their combined valuation has reportedly reached about USD 1.4 trillion—nearly twice the size of Japan’s national budget....