ByteDance News
Latest ByteDance news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. 6 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
About ByteDance
ByteDance is a Beijing-based technology company founded in 2012, best known for TikTok, Douyin and Toutiao. Its Doubao team has emerged as a major Chinese AI foundation-model developer, and the company is increasingly active as a strategic investor in robotics and embodied AI startups including X Square Robot.
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Latest ByteDance news
- Shanghai AI Lab Drops 744B Atria Dawn Preview As An Open-Source Agent — Shanghai AI Laboratory has quietly shipped Atria Dawn Preview, a 744-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts agentic model built on GLM-5.2, under an MIT...
- ByteDance Spin-Off Anew Labs Raises $290M At $1.5B For AI Drug Discovery — Shanghai-based Anew Labs, spun off from ByteDance's internal AI-for-biology unit, closed a $290 million inaugural external round at a $1.5 billion val...
- Nvidia's H200 AI Chips Trickle Into China, ByteDance And Tencent Get 10K Each — The FT says ByteDance and Tencent have each received about 10,000 Nvidia H200 processors as Beijing eases curbs, but requires much of the hardware sta...
- X Square Robot Hits $2.8B Valuation in Series C for Physical AI — X Square Robot surpassed a $2.8B valuation after four consecutive rounds capped by a Series C, backed by IDG, Xiaomi, Meituan, Alibaba, ByteDance and...
- NVIDIA Unveils Vera, A Custom CPU Built To Serve AI Agents — Now in full production, Vera pairs 88 NVIDIA-designed Olympus cores with LPDDR5X memory and ships in standalone and Vera Rubin systems, with Anthropic...
- X Square Robot Raises $276M Series B from Xiaomi and Sequoia China — Beijing embodied-AI startup X Square Robot has closed a $276M Series B led by Xiaomi and Sequoia China, with ByteDance, Meituan and Alibaba joining to...