ByteDance officially launches its latest Doubao large model 1.5 Pro (Doubao-1.5-pro), which demonstrates outstanding comprehensive capabilities in various fields, successfully surpassing the well-known GPT-4o and Claude3.5Sonnet in the industry. The release of this model marks an important step forward for ByteDance in the field of artificial intelligence. Doubao 1.5 Pro adopts a novel sparse MoE (Mixture of Experts) architecture, utilizing a smaller set of activation parameters for pre-training. This design's innovation...

On January 22, 2025, Volcano Engine, a subsidiary of ByteDance, officially announced the release of Doubao Large Model 1.5, which is now fully available on the Volcano Ark platform. The newly released Doubao Large Model 1.5 has achieved significant performance improvements across multiple domains, reaching a globally leading level of comprehensive capabilities, marking another important breakthrough for ByteDance in the field of artificial intelligence.

On January 20, 2025, Doubao App officially released its latest 'end-to-end' voice large model, with significant updates to its real-time voice call functionality. This development marks another leap for Doubao in the field of voice interaction, surpassing the previous ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition), LLM (Large Language Model), and TTS (Text-to-Speech) cascading solutions by integrating voice recognition, understanding, and generation into a single model. After testing by 'Intelligent Emergence,' the standout feature of the new Doubao version is its human-like capabilities.

Recently, Doubao Company announced the launch of its new real-time voice large model, claiming to achieve a "cliff-like lead" in Chinese dialogue, marking a significant enhancement in AI conversational capabilities. This model is fully available in the Doubao App (version 7.2.0 New Year Edition), providing users with a richer and more authentic voice communication experience. According to reports, Doubao's real-time voice large model has achieved a deep integration of speech understanding and generation, forming an end-to-end voice dialogue system. This technological breakthrough allows the model to excel in vocal expressiveness, control, and emotion.

Recently, Analysys released the report 'Top Ten Trends in AI Industry Development by 2025', which shows that Quark ranks first in China’s active AI application user list, and is the only AI application where the share of post-00s users exceeds 50%. The report indicates that the initial form of diverse application scenarios is emerging, with major tech companies occupying the first tier of AI applications, led by Quark and Doubao. The ranking reveals that products from major tech companies such as Quark under Alibaba and Doubao from ByteDance dominate the top tier of AI applications. Notably, in July 2024, Quark Mobile.

Lenovo announced a partnership with Volcano Engine to integrate the Doubao large model into its AI desktop assistant Ruyi (AI Stick), launching three new features: AI Search, AI Writing, and AI Chat. This marks an important step for Ruyi in providing personalized AI services. The AI Search feature, characterized by its clean and intelligent design, offers users a more precise and efficient search experience, ensuring that every click yields reliable and useful results. AI Writing provides robust assistance for users' creations, whether it's in-depth articles, personal blogs, marketing copy, or...

At today's Volcano Engine FORCE conference, CEO Tan Dai announced that the Doubao General Model Pro has achieved comprehensive improvements in various fields since May, including overall capability, reasoning ability, instruction adherence, code execution, and mathematical processing. Tan Dai stated: "A more powerful model will drive a comprehensive upgrade of enterprise AI." The enhancements of the Doubao General Model Pro have significantly helped multiple companies, especially industry leaders like China Mobile Games and Silas Automotive, achieve notable upgrades in AI applications. Image source note: Image by AI

The AI application development platform Coze has announced the launch of its new version—Coze 1.5—at the Volcano Engine FORCE Power Conference. This update marks a significant step forward for the Coze platform in the field of AI application development, aiming to provide users with a more powerful and convenient development environment. The core highlight of Coze 1.5 is its support for a GUI (Graphical User Interface) development interface, allowing one-click publishing to various application formats such as mini programs, H5, and APIs. This feature enables users to quickly build applications based on large models, regardless of whether they have programming knowledge.

During the 2024 Volcano Engine FORCE Power Conference · Winter, Volcano Engine announced a brand new upgrade of the Doubao Large Model family, showcasing its latest advancements in the field of artificial intelligence. The daily tokens usage of the Doubao Large Model has exceeded 4 trillion, reflecting an increase of over 33 times since its release in May, demonstrating its widespread application and rapid growth in the industry.

On December 18th, at the Volcano Engine FORCE Power Conference, Volcano Engine President Tan Dai unveiled the new Doubao Visual Understanding Model. This model processes both text and image-related information simultaneously, providing more accurate answers. The new model excels in content recognition, understanding, and reasoning capabilities, featuring more nuanced visual description abilities, which brings stronger intelligent processing capabilities to enterprise users. Tan Dai revealed at the conference that the Doubao Visual Understanding Model has achieved significant technological breakthroughs and has also seen a dramatic reduction in pricing.

Recently, as ByteDance's Doubao Large Model accelerates its commercialization process and shows impressive performance in the global AI sector, the "Doubao" concept stocks have become the new favorites in the capital market, leading to a new round of price increases in the AI track. Several listed companies, including Tianyu Shuke, Juran Smart Home, and Bee Assistant, have seen their stock prices hit the daily limit for multiple days in a row, with Tianyu Shuke achieving 6 consecutive limits in 10 days by Friday's close, Juran Smart Home hitting 5 limits in 6 days, and Bee Assistant reaching a peak of 20CM limit up during trading. This reflects the market's strong optimism about the Doubao Large Model and its ecosystem.

On December 12, Peking University and ByteDance officially announced the establishment of the Doubao Large Model System Software Joint Laboratory, marking a new milestone in the collaboration between industry, academia, and research in China's AI field. The research work of the joint laboratory will be based on the Doubao large model independently developed by ByteDance. Researchers from universities and enterprises will conduct in-depth research on key technologies such as model training and inference within the laboratory. With the construction and development of the laboratory, a large number of Peking University students will also enter the laboratory for internships, working side by side with industry researchers.

The video generation feature for Doubao on PC, a product of ByteDance, has entered its beta testing phase, with some users already receiving access. After applying for the beta test, users can visit doubao.com, select the 'Video Generation' feature, upload images, and input prompt words while also adding camera movements and storyboard information to generate video content. During the beta phase, users can generate up to ten videos for free each day.

The Intelligent AI Assistant Doubao, developed by ByteDance, has recently upgraded its text-to-image capabilities. The new feature allows users to generate images containing specified text with a single click. The relevant person in charge of the Doubao large model team pointed out that the text-to-image model of Doubao integrates LLM (Large Language Model) and DIT (Digital Image Technology) framework, optimizing its learning ability for Chinese data, and enhancing the generation capability of Chinese characters, significantly improving the generation results.

ByteDance recently released a new feature for the Doubao application - Image Understanding. The Doubao app and PC version have added photo and camera buttons, allowing users to upload images for content recognition. Doubao's image understanding capability goes beyond text recognition; it can also analyze image content and even understand and explain jokes.

According to Tech Planet, Douyin has announced the launch of a new feature called the 'V Project,' aimed at expanding the boundaries of live streaming and interaction. Douyin states that 'V' represents infinite possibilities, symbolizing exploration, innovation, and breakthroughs. Through this project, Douyin hopes to provide users with a more interesting and enriched interactive experience. The core highlight of the 'V Project' is the AI Avatar feature. This feature allows creators to generate a virtual avatar that mirrors their personality and thoughts, enabling continuous interaction with users for 24 hours.