{"id":8949,"date":"2025-10-17T11:34:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T11:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/a-token-of-intent-doubaos-data-surge-cements-bytedances-ai-ambitions\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T11:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T11:34:35","slug":"a-token-of-intent-doubaos-data-surge-cements-bytedances-ai-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/a-token-of-intent-doubaos-data-surge-cements-bytedances-ai-ambitions\/","title":{"rendered":"A token of intent: Doubao\u2019s data surge cements ByteDance\u2019s AI ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/10\/17\/74663dec-855c-4612-b8ae-66dfe914de9b_756b3268.jpg?itok=eJeRErb6&amp;v=1760693908\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"10.416961130742\">Chinese tech giant <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">ByteDance<\/span> has more than doubled the number of tokens processed by its flagship <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Doubao<\/span> large language models (LLMs) in the past six months, highlighting a surge in artificial intelligence use among Chinese consumers and placing it among the top global hyperscalers.<\/div>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1evd7i0 e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Doubao&rsquo;s average daily token usage jumped from 12.7 trillion tokens in March to over 30 trillion tokens in September, ByteDance&rsquo;s Volcano Engine cloud unit president, Tan Dai, said at a corporate event on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">That represented a 253-fold increase from Doubao&rsquo;s daily average in May 2024, equalling the daily average total for all of China in late June.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tokens are the basic units of data processed by AI models &ndash; comparable to a pixel in an image, a snippet of sound, or a word in a sentence. For chatbots, a billion tokens equates to around a million conversations.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tokens are also the standard billing units for using AI models through application programming interfaces (APIs).<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-117a6hs e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\" readability=\"10.28\">The figures support an earlier statement by <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Alibaba Group Holding CEO Eddie Wu Yongming<\/span>, who said overall token consumption in China was doubling every two or three months as AI adoption across industries grew faster than any previous technology in history. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><sub>A token of intent: Doubao&rsquo;s data surge cements ByteDance&rsquo;s AI ambitions<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese tech giant ByteDance has more than doubled the number of tokens processed by its flagship Doubao large language models (LLMs) in the past six months, highlighting a surge in artificial intelligence use among Chinese consumers and placing it among the top global hyperscalers. Advertisement Doubao&rsquo;s average daily token usage jumped from 12.7 trillion tokens&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/a-token-of-intent-doubaos-data-surge-cements-bytedances-ai-ambitions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;A token of intent: Doubao\u2019s data surge cements ByteDance\u2019s AI ambitions&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}