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… The Chinese startup got investments from ByteDance and Alibaba, China's cloud and e-commerce giant. However, ByteDance doesn't appear to have its own chip design teams, and will purportedly rely on "several external partners", who are expected to also take care of the actual silicon manufacturing. …
… As the AI industry reaches towards CPU-intensive 'inference', ByteDance's planned chip is intended to be deployed throughout its AI data centres and servers. This, in turn, will support ByteDance's agentic AI products, such as the company's development platform, Coze. …
… With its chip R&D team now over 1,000 employees, ByteDance is doubling down on AI hardware. …
Apple reportedly geoblocking downloads and updates of ByteDance-owned apps in the US Marcus Mendes | Mar 5 2026 - 12:31 pm PT | Mar 5 2026 - 12:31 pm PT According to Wired , Apple is blocking US users from downloading or updating several ByteDance-owned apps, even when they have a valid Chinese App… …