ChinaByteDance reportedly plans a Muse-style voice assistant within weeks.
Co-founder Zhang Yiming told staff ByteDance needs until 2029 or 2030 to match OpenAI and Anthropic.
Zhang cited a pretraining-data gap and urged the team to rely less on distillation, which trains one model on another’s outputs.
The assistant would sit beside Doubao, ByteDance’s chatbot, when it launches in the coming weeks.
How each outlet framed it
- TechNode
- cites Zhang Yiming's admission that ByteDance trails OpenAI and Anthropic until 2029-2030, pinned on a pretraining-data gap and reliance on distillation
Sources: TechNode