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TikTok's Q1 2025 report on combating illicit activities shows significant progress in tackling black market operations. The report reveals that TikTok banned 2.6 million accounts involved in activities such as online water armies, fraud, and illegal traffic redirection. Suspected criminal activity has also been reported to relevant authorities.

On February 25th, Baidu announced that its no-code development tool, "Miaoda," has officially opened its user invitation test. Users can access the Miaoda homepage through the invitation email they received and experience features including H5 page development and website development. Baidu stated that more features will be opened to users in the future. As of now, the number of enterprise users queuing up for the test has surpassed 20,000.

According to reports from Blue Whale Finance, Chen Zhijie, the head of algorithms for ByteDance's TikTok, is set to leave the company and has begun preparing a startup project related to artificial intelligence, focusing on AI Coding. Sources reveal that Chen is currently in talks with investors to advance his entrepreneurial plan. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image authorized by service provider Midjourney. Chen Zhijie joined ByteDance in April 2022 as Senior Technical Director, primarily responsible for TikTok's recommendation algorithms.

TikTok recently announced that its AI-driven video generation tool, Symphony Creative Studio, is now fully available to all TikTok business users. This tool will provide advertisers and content creators with an unprecedented creative experience. This intelligent tool, which integrates video generation, transformation, and expansion functions, aims to help advertisers and creators overcome the bottleneck between creativity and production, making the video creation process simpler and more efficient. Users can access the full suite of features at no additional cost.

Recently, the short video platform TikTok announced a partnership with Getty Images to launch a new AI ad creation tool. Through this collaboration, advertisers can directly use licensed images and videos provided by Getty Images when utilizing TikTok's AI ad creation tools, producing ads that include AI-generated content. The platform's AI avatar feature can create virtual characters that look like real people, adding richer expressions to the advertising content.

Recently, a seemingly trivial question has sparked heated discussions worldwide: Are there more wheels or doors in the world? While this question may appear inconsequential at first glance, it actually provides an excellent opportunity to explore the capabilities of generative artificial intelligence (AI). This topic unexpectedly went viral in 2022, with a simple question igniting countless debates on Twitter and subsequently gaining widespread attention on TikTok. People began to fervently discuss which one has a greater quantity: wheels or doors. However, answering this question...

Recently, TikTok launched an AI-driven advertising purchase tool called Smart+. This tool aims to simplify the advertising buying process by automating all operations from creative development to targeting and optimization. Smart+ is TikTok's response to Google's Performance Max and Meta's Advantage+. It uses artificial intelligence to handle heavy lifting tasks such as creating and delivering ads to drive conversions, leads, or app downloads. However, Smart+ also offers

ByteDance is secretly preparing to establish a Large Model Research Institute to strengthen its position in AI large models. The institute has attracted top talents from the industry, including Qin Yujia and Huang Wenhao, who will manage technology projects and report directly to founder Zhang Yiming. This move indicates ByteDance's long-term plans and proactive strategies in AI model R&D, aiming to leverage external expertise for technological a....

TikTok pays Microsoft nearly $20 million monthly to access OpenAI's artificial intelligence models via Microsoft's cloud services, bringing approximately $1 billion in annual revenue to Microsoft's cloud division and highlighting the value of AI services in the tech industry. Should TikTok develop its own large language model, it may reduce its reliance on Microsoft's services. OpenAI previously suspended ByteDance's account to investigate whether it violated developer agreements. As OpenAI's exclusive cloud service provider, Microsoft has invested significant resources to support its models, such as ChatGPT.

Vimeo has just announced a major update, joining YouTube and TikTok, and is now requiring creators to explicitly label AI-generated content. This new regulation means that all video content that appears realistic must disclose its source if it was created or modified by AI, ensuring transparency with the audience. As AI technology advances, distinguishing between real and fake video content is becoming increasingly difficult. Vimeo's new policy aims to prevent viewers from being misled and mista

Sora's entry into TikTok marks the arrival of the AI short video marketing era. The emergence of Sora will significantly reduce video advertising production costs and could disrupt the advertising industry. The videos generated by Sora are more realistic, avoiding the 'uncanny valley' effect associated with traditional AI-generated videos. Sora will change the way videos are produced and enhance the efficiency of brand storytelling. Although Sora introduces automated advertising creativity, human creativity remains irreplaceable.

Jiang Lu, Research Lead of Google's VideoPoet project, has joined TikTok and is rumored to take on the role of head of the North American technology department. Jiang left Google to continue working in the video generation field, launching video generation technology similar to Sora. Jiang is a part-time professor at CMU and has extensive research experience, making him a key talent in AI that major companies are vying for. The VideoPoet project replaces UNet with Transformer, becoming the SOTA in AI video generation, attracting TikTok's interest.

TikTok is testing the AI Song feature, which generates songs based on text prompts. Initial feedback suggests that the generated songs are less impressive than previous AI songs. Users are trying the feature, but the results are not ideal; the song pitches are off, and even the autotune functionality has issues. TikTok had previously launched AI-generated songs, such as 'Heart on My Sleeve' featuring AI representations of Drake and The Weeknd.

The founder of the music remix application Hook, Gaurav Sharma, aims to use AI to enable music fans to legally create remixed versions of their favorite tracks for sharing on short video platforms like TikTok. Hook plans to allow users to choose song snippets of no more than 60 seconds and use AI tools to add their own style. Hook addresses copyright and compensation issues, enabling creators to use AI to make music without infringing on copyrights. The app has secured $3 million in seed funding, including from Steve.