ByteDance Reportedly Pushes Into AI Agents With Plan for Assistant Similar to Meta Muse

November 11: According to IT Home citing Bloomberg, ByteDance plans to launch an AI assistant similar to Meta Muse within the next few weeks to consolidate its lead in AI video generation and accelerate its catch-up with top US AI labs, aiming to narrow the gap in about three years. People familiar with the matter said ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming recently presented the plan at an all-hands meeting for its AI team. Zhang believes ByteDance can compete with companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI at the AI frontier, but reminded the team that it will take until at least 2029 or 2030 to truly reach their level.

The AI agent ByteDance plans to launch will play a role similar to Meta's Muse, which was launched in September this year. Muse integrates Meta's long-accumulated AI research into a voice-interactive assistant, featuring an animated virtual avatar that can help users complete various tasks. It is currently unclear whether ByteDance plans to develop companion hardware for the assistant.