ByteDance
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Overview
ByteDance is a Chinese internet technology company founded in Beijing in 2012 that operates some of the world's largest content and commerce platforms. Its portfolio includes the short-video apps TikTok and Douyin, the news aggregator Toutiao, the video editor CapCut, the workplace suite Lark and the Doubao family of AI assistants and models. Recommendation systems trained on user behaviour sit at the centre of every product, and the company has grown into one of the highest-revenue private technology businesses in the world.
News
ByteDance's 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model Faces One Big Problem
ByteDance is training a 10 trillion parameter AI model to rival Anthropic's Mythos. But US chip export controls and raw scale alone may not close the gap in 2026.
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ByteDance's 10 Trillion Parameter AI Model Faces One Big Problem
ByteDance is training a 10 trillion parameter AI model to rival Anthropic's Mythos. But US chip export controls and raw scale alone may not close the gap in 2026.
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Report
Seed-2.0-Code - API Pricing & Providers
Seed 2.0 Code is a model from ByteDance Seed optimized for agentic coding. $0.50 per million input tokens, $3 per million output tokens. 262,144 token context window, maximum output of 131,072 tokens.
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Technologies
Tech DNA
LoRA
VLM
PEFT
AI/ML
ComfyUI
Diffusion Models
Fine-tuning
LoRA
Multimodal AI
Prompt Engineering
VLM
PEFT
AI Agents
Human-in-the-Loop
Other
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Stack modernity
86/100
How modern this stack is, based on technology relevance, AI adoption and the share of legacy tools.
In-demand technologies
LoRA
1 job
Required
Fine-tuning
1 job
Required
Prompt Engineering
1 job
Required
Multimodal AI
1 job
Required
Diffusion Models
1 job
Required
AI Agents
1 job
Required
VLM
1 job
Required
ComfyUI
1 job
Required
Salary medians are calculated from this company's open jobs and compared with the market.
Industry adoption
AI Agents
10%
Prompt Engineering
5%
Fine-tuning
4%
Multimodal AI
3%
LoRA
1%
Diffusion Models
1%
Share of companies in the same industry that use each technology.
Stack changes
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Aug 2026
Human-in-the-Loop
Aug 2026
AI Agents
Aug 2026
Technologies recently added to or removed from this company's stack - a signal of tech migrations and new initiatives.
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Products
Doubao
Doubao is ByteDance's family of large language models and the consumer assistant built on them. It powers chat, image generation and productivity features across the company's Chinese apps and cloud platform.
bytedance.com
Toutiao
Toutiao is a personalised news and content aggregator and ByteDance's original product. Its recommendation engine established the algorithmic feed approach used across the company's later apps.
toutiao.com
CapCut
CapCut is a free video editing application for mobile and desktop with templates, auto-captioning and AI effects. It is widely used by creators producing content for short-video platforms.
capcut.com
Douyin
Douyin is the Chinese counterpart of TikTok and the company's flagship domestic product. It combines short video with live streaming, local services and a large e-commerce operation.
douyin.com
TikTok
TikTok is ByteDance's international short-video platform with more than a billion monthly users. Its recommendation feed, creator tools and integrated shopping features made it one of the most downloaded apps in the world.
tiktok.com
People
Shou Zi Chew
Chief Executive Officer, TikTok
Shou Zi Chew leads TikTok and previously served as ByteDance's chief financial officer. He was formerly chief financial officer of Xiaomi and an investor at DST Global.
Liang Rubo
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Liang Rubo co-founded ByteDance and became chief executive in 2021. He previously led the company's human resources and engineering efficiency organisations.
Zhang Yiming
Co-Founder
Zhang Yiming founded ByteDance in 2012 and built it around algorithmic content recommendation. He stepped down as chief executive in 2021 and remains a controlling shareholder.
Growth
Hiring Momentum
48/100
Stable
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Product
100% ▼
Jobs
In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Dubai
ComfyUI
Diffusion Models
Fine-tuning
LoRA
Multimodal AI
Prompt Engineering
VLM
PEFT
AI Agents
Human-in-the-Loop
Management
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Financials
Total raised
$8B
Latest round
Private Equity
Funding rounds
2
Investors
5
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | Valuation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private Equity | 2020 | $5B | $180B |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2018 | $3B | $75B |
Key Investors
Sequoia China
Sequoia China, now operating as HongShan, was an early and repeated backer of ByteDance. It remains one of the company's most significant venture shareholders.
hongshan.com
General Atlantic
General Atlantic has been a ByteDance shareholder since its growth financings. The firm specialises in late-stage global technology investments.
generalatlantic.com
KKR
KKR joined ByteDance's pre-IPO financing rounds. The global investment firm holds positions across technology and media.
kkr.com
SoftBank
SoftBank participated in ByteDance's 2018 financing at a seventy-five billion dollar valuation. The Japanese group invests in late-stage internet platforms worldwide.
softbank.jp
SIG Asia Investments
SIG Asia was among ByteDance's earliest institutional investors, backing the company in 2012. The trading firm's venture arm holds a long-standing stake.
sig.com