OpenAI has suspended TikTok parent ByteDance following a report that the China-owned firm was “secretly” using its “GPT” AI technology to build its own rival chatbot service.

ByteDance’s Lemon8 is described as similar to Pinterest. Users can post inspirational photos or look for travel, food, makeup, and fashion inspiration — but TikTokers are now being paid to ...

Internal company documents confirm that TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, has been using OpenAI’s GPT model to build a competitor, in violation of its license with Microsoft.

In today’s issue of Command Line, I reported that ByteDance has been violating the developer license of both Microsoft and OpenAI by using GPT-generated data to train its own, competing model in ...

TikTok maker ByteDance plans to wind down its Nuverse gaming brand and retreat from mainstream video games, four people familiar with the matter said. Skip to main content.

ByteDance applied a similar formula to Douyin. Then in 2017, the privately-owned tech company bought a US-based video startup and released TikTok as the overseas version of Douyin.

Still, ByteDance’s valuation of $223 billion is only 28% of Meta’s market cap of $789.5 billion. Comparing their revenue multiples, ByteDance would be worth 2.6x times its 2022 revenue, ...

TikTok is no longer available in the United States—at least for now. But it’s not the only ByteDance-owned app that’s currently blocked for US-based users.. Shortly before the federally ...

Ahead of this, Insider reported that ByteDance had been paying creators to post about Lemon8 on TikTok to seed its initial U.S. user base and content. From the looks of things, it seemed that ...