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ByteDance's AI video app Seedance is partnering with education app Gauth to create AI-generated animated lessons for students. The collaboration launches 4 August, coinciding with back-to-school season. Gauth will use Seedance's technology to transform subjects into cinematic, AI-narrated visual stories with adaptive quizzes. Initial courses focus on history topics including World War 2 and the Industrial Revolution. Both apps are owned by ByteDance. Gauth, which launched in 2020, now has 86 million monthly active users, representing a 760% increase since 2023. The integration will use Seedance version 2.5, which promises enhanced editing capabilities and videos up to 30 seconds long. Seedance previously faced scrutiny from production houses and streaming services over intellectual property concerns.

TikTok parent ByteDance has officially passed the $4 billion mark in AI revenue. Zee July 31, 2026 Major news: ByteDance has officially passed $4 billion in annual recurring revenue from its LLMs, according to the South China Morning Post. This is especially significant because it would make ByteDance the biggest publicly known AI business in China. Annual recurring revenue estimates subscription income over a 12 month period using current monthly earnings. Sources told South China Morning Post that ByteDance reached $4 billion this month - which is well past its domestic rivals. The company, which owns TikTok and Douyin, has spent the past few months turning more of its AI products into paid services for businesses and consumers, with Doubao becoming one of its biggest sources of AI income. How much further is ByteDance compared to its competitors? Let's give this some context: Zhipu, known internationally as Z.ai, recorded annual recurring revenue of $1 billion in July. Reports also said DeepSeek was close to $500 million, and Bloomberg reported Moonshot AI reached $300 million in June, as the publication mentioned. It also mentioned that Alibaba announced in May that annual recurring revenue from its AI models and applications would pass 10 billion yuan (about $1.5 billion), during the second quarter and come to three times that amount before the end of the year. Chinese AI companies aren't quite making the numbers the biggest American businesses are yet. Estimates from data platform TickerTrends value Anthropic's annual recurring revenue at $74.1 billion and OpenAI's at $41.3 billion. What is bringing in AI revenue? ByteDance introduced optional paid subscriptions for the Doubao chatbot in early May. Monthly prices range from 68 yuan to 500 yuan, and customers can also choose a lower priced annual subscription. According to Aicpb.com, Doubao lost about 6.1 million monthly active users after the subscriptions were announced. Even after that, it remained China's most popular AI app with 330 million users. Impact Newswire said Doubao and enterprise AI services sold through Volcano Engine have become important sources of AI income for the company. The publication also said ByteDance has invested in foundation models, as well as cloud computing, AI chips and video generation tech as it develops more AI products for businesses. What else is changing with other ByteDance platforms? On semi-related note, ByteDance has reorganised its workplace collaboration platform Lark, known as Feishu in China, as it brings more of its AI products into one business structure. According to an internal memo seen by the South China Morning Post, Lark's product team will join the team responsible for the Doubao AI chatbot. Zhao Qi, who previously led Doubao, will oversee the enlarged product division, and Lark Chief Executive David Xie Xin will report to him. Lark's sales, marketing and customer service teams will join Volcano Engine, where a new department will handle sales and customer support for the company's model as a service, software as a service and cloud products. Volcano Engine President Tan Dai will lead that department, and Lark's development and infrastructure team will become part of Flow, ByteDance's AI applications division. The reorganisation, in ByteDance's words, will build "stronger AI product competitiveness and customer service capabilities." The company is clearly prioritising AI, and all of this explains how it is surpassing its local rivals. It'd be interesting to see how long it'd take the company to start operating at the level of its Americal competitors.

Chinese AI firms MiniMax and ByteDance released updates to their competing video generation models within hours of each other, highlighting China's aggressive advances in the field. The rapid-fire announcements underscore how China has emerged as the leader over the US in AI video generation technology. The simultaneous releases from both companies demonstrate the intense competition driving innovation amongst Chinese tech firms. MiniMax Group and ByteDance are racing to dominate the burgeoning AI video market, pushing the boundaries of what artificial intelligence can create. The developments signal China's growing dominance in this emerging technology sector, with Chinese companies increasingly outpacing their American counterparts in bringing advanced AI video tools to market.