ByteDance reportedly plans AI assistant similar to Meta’s Muse

ByteDance plans to introduce an AI assistant similar to Meta’s Muse in the coming weeks, IT Home reported on Wednesday, citing Bloomberg. ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming outlined the plan at an internal meeting with the company’s AI team, according to people familiar with the discussion.

Meta launched Muse in September as a voice-based assistant with an animated avatar and plans to bring it to devices including smart glasses. ByteDance already operates the Doubao chatbot and sells access to its Seedance video generation models. The new assistant would expand its consumer AI lineup.

At the meeting, Zhang said ByteDance could compete with OpenAI and Anthropic but estimated it would take until 2029 or 2030 to reach their level. He pointed to a gap in pretraining data and urged the team to rely less on distillation, a technique that trains one model on another model’s outputs. [IT Home, in Chinese]