China's AI Progress and ByteDance's Strategic Approach in Global Race

Key Intelligence

• ■China is rapidly closing the artificial intelligence (AI) gap with the United States.
• ■Despite China's progress, superior US investment remains a key differentiator in the global AI landscape.
• ■ByteDance, a major Chinese tech company, has introduced SeedRealtime, an advanced audio-visual full-duplex LLM capable of watching, listening, and speaking.
• ■ByteDance's founder, Zhang Yiming, has reportedly banned AI model distillation, a technique used by competitors, which could impact the company's competitive speed.