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

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.

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

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.

Elon Musk and Sam Altman traded barbs on social media Wednesday after the OpenAI boss took center stage at the White House to unveil his ambitious $500 billion “Stargate” AI infrastructure project. Appearing alongside Oracle executive chairman Larry Ellison and Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son,

Who will “save” TikTok? YouTuber MrBeast, X owner Elon Musk and Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison have been floated as potential buyers of the app in the past week.

ByteDance has launched an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered code editor in competition with American leaders like Cursor and Microsoft's Visual Studio Code, just after US President Donald Trump delayed the enforcement of a law requiring the company to divest TikTok.

Microsoft on Tuesday said it has changed some key terms of a deal with OpenAI after the ChatGPT creator announced a joint venture with Oracle and Japan's SoftBank Group to build up to $500 billion of new AI data centers in the United States.

Beijing-headquartered Moonshot AI claims that Kimi K1.5 has caught up with OpenAI's O1, which debuted last month, in mathematics, coding, and multimodal reasoning capabilities. Similarly, Hangzhou-based DeepSeek said that DeepSeek-R1 performs on par with O1 in tasks such as math, coding, and natural language inference.

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has launched an AI-powered code editor called Trae. The new tool comes as a competitor to established American players like Cursor and Microsoft 's Visual Studio Code. It has been launched just as US President Donald Trump decided to delay a law that would force ByteDance to divest from TikTok.