Tesla just launched a new in-car AI voice assistant in China, partnering with ByteDance's Doubao for vehicle controls and DeepSeek for conversational queries. The hands-free "Hey Tesla" assistant debuts on the new six-seat Model Y L. It marks a pragmatic localization push to close the smart cabin gap with domestic EV rivals like BYD and Nio.
Top Chinese AI apps like ByteDance’s Doubao, Alibaba’s Qwen, and DeepSeek just disabled photo-recognition and exam-solving features during the country's college entrance exams. Chatbots told users the temporary blackout was implemented to prevent cheating. Basically, an AI kill-switch for exam season.
ByteDance just unveiled two powerful video generators, PixelDance and Seaweed, stepping up its challenge to OpenAI's Sora. PixelDance generates 10-second clips while keeping characters and scenes consistent across varying camera angles via simple text prompts, while Seaweed scales consistent environments up to two minutes. Both are currently in private beta, targeting one of AI filmmaking's biggest bottlenecks.
ByteDance just got caught secretly using OpenAI’s API to build and evaluate its competing foundation model, codenamed Project Seed, in direct violation of OpenAI's terms of service. Internal Lark chats reportedly revealed staff discussing how to "whitewash" the data trails, prompting OpenAI to quickly suspend ByteDance's account pending investigation. Why it matters: While smaller startups often risk using GPT outputs to bootstrap, seeing a tech giant of ByteDance’s scale cut corners highlights the extreme pressure to catch up in the generative AI race.
