ByteDance
ACTIVEByteDance is a Chinese technology conglomerate building content platforms, creative tools, and AI models, including TikTok, Douyin, CapCut, and Doubao.
ByteDance
Founded 2012 · Beijing, ChinaByteDance is a Chinese technology conglomerate founded in 2012 in Beijing by Zhang Yiming and Liang Rubo. The company operates algorithm-driven content platforms — including TikTok and its Chinese counterpart Douyin — alongside creative tools (CapCut), news aggregators (Toutiao), productivity software (Lark), and the Volcano Engine cloud platform. In artificial intelligence, ByteDance develops the Doubao family of large language and multimodal models and conducts research on foundation models and video generation. The company remains privately held; it is incorporated in the Cayman Islands with operational headquarters in Beijing and Singapore.
Founders
Domain of activity
5 areas · 6 technologies · 2 industries- Language models
- Multimodal models
- Content generation
- Computer Vision
- Cloud AI
- LLM
- Multimodal AI
- Generative AI
- Foundation Models
- Computer vision
- NLP
- Media & entertainment
- Telecommunications
Global presence
HQ Beijing · 2 regionsScale & funding
founded 2012Profile & metadata
4 classification · 5 external linksClassification
- Statusactive
- Development stagemature
- Listed onNo
- Organization typeBig Tech
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