TikTok-Owner Tests ChatGPT-Style Bot After Joining China AI Race
- ByteDance is testing “Grace” among its own employees for now
- It joins a race that engulfed most of China’s internet leaders
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ByteDance Ltd. is testing an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot among employees, joining rival Chinese internet conglomerates from Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to Baidu Inc. in a race to create a local version of ChatGPT.
TikTok’s owner has code-named the project “Grace,” a ByteDance spokesperson said without revealing more details. Employees using the service will be greeted by a pop-up message saying it’s based on several large language models, according to one of the testers, who asked to remain unidentified discussing an internal project.