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ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic

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According to Ars Technica, ByteDance is training a massive AI model to rival Anthropic. The Chinese tech giant is at an early stage of training a model that could reach ten trillion parameters—three times the size of Moonshot's Kimi K3, the largest Chinese model released to date. Pre-training, which typically takes three to six months, is underway. If the training succeeds, the model will be fine-tuned and released, though the exact final size will be determined later.

Source: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/bytedance-trains-massi...

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