TikTok owner ByteDance on Wednesday released an update to its flagship AI model aimed at challenging Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s latest reasoning model products, as a global race intensified to create AI models capable of tackling complex problems.

TikTok owner ByteDance plans to spend more than $12bn on artificial intelligence infrastructure this year, betting on the cutting-edge technology for new growth while under pressure from Washington to sell its popular video-sharing app in the US.

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.

MOSCOW, Jan 22 (Bernama-Sputnik/RIA Novosti) - Chinese company ByteDance, the owner of the TikTok social media platform, plans to spend over US$12 billion on developing AI-related infrastructure in 2025, the Financial Times newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the plans, according to Sputnik/RIA Novosti.

On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump issued a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who ran the dark web marketplace Silk Road under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Ulbricht has been serving a life sentence without parole since 2015, when he was convicted of multiple charges, including the distribution of narcotics.

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.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that three leading companies would make a large investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure.

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.

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.

Newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump on Tuesday expressed support for Elon Musk potentially acquiring TikTok, and also proposed a