ByteDance is secretly developing multiple AI products, including multimodal digital humans. ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is dedicating all his time to AI. The company's video editing app, Jianying, formed a closed team months ago to develop new AI products. ByteDance has already launched three AI conversational products. The AI chatbot development platform Coze, released last year, has gone live domestically. ByteDance also introduced the text-to-image open model SDXL-Lightning.

ByteDance is secretly developing multiple AI products including multimodal digital human products, AI-generated images, and AI-generated video, with the Jianying team clandestinely working on AI products.