A look at ByteDance's efforts to become China's leading company across all aspects of AI, from frontier models and video generation to infrastructure and chips
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A consumer giant vertically integrating from frontier models down to chips shows how much value is expected to sit in owning the full AI stack. If you're building on top of others' models and infra, pressure will grow to differentiate via proprietary data, distribution, or domain depth—not just another interface.
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