ByteDance prepares an AI assistant, sees frontier parity no earlier than 2029
ByteDance plans to release a Muse-style AI assistant within weeks, according to Bloomberg as relayed by AI Weekly.
Co-founder Zhang Yiming said catching the frontier labs would not happen before 2029 or 2030, citing much smaller training datasets. He also ruled out distillation. AI Weekly adds that the Doubao chatbot has passed 75 million monthly active users, according to a separate Bloomberg report.
Source: AI Weekly, published on November 12, 2026.