Doubao news — ByteDance’s AI assistant: features, user growth and model releases from China’s most-used AI app.
Doubao and DeepSeek lead Chinese AI in opposite ways: a consumer giant with 382 million users versus an open-model lab. Here is the contrast in full below.
Doubao did not win China with the smartest model. It won on distribution, price and ByteDance's iteration machine. Here is the full playbook, step by step.
Doubao is ByteDance's AI assistant and China's most-used AI app, with around 382 million monthly users. Here is what it is, who runs it and what it does.