According to Sina Technology, a media report recently saidByteDance“It was secretly launched two months ago”AI PhoneR&D projects. Regarding the above information, a person related to ByteDance said:The information is false. In fact, we are exploring large-scale model software solutions based on mobile phones and providing them to mobile phone manufacturers for reference.There is currently no plan to make and sell mobile phones ourselves.
The news originally came from a tweet released by "AR Circle" on June 10, which claimed that the core team of the project was mainly composed of two parts: one part came from the Hammer mobile phone R&D team acquired by ByteDance in 2019, and the other part came from the PICO VR R&D team acquired in 2021.
According to data released by Sensor Tower in May, as of April this year,ByteDance's AI chatbot "Doubao has been downloaded nearly 9 million times on Apple's iOS platform in one year, and Wenxin Yiyan is close behind with 8 million downloads.In terms of monthly active users, Doubao has nearly 4 million users.