ByteDance released SwanTale, a unified speech-audio model, on Hugging Face

ByteDance launched Seedance 2.5 model

ByteDance Seed releases SpectraReward, a training-free reward model for text-to-image generation.

DeepSeek is in early talks for a new funding round at a $71 billion pre-money valuation.

Released DSpark speculative decoding framework

Began developing custom inference ASICs to cut GPU dependency

China's domestic AI chip budget share rises to 46%, driven by DeepSeek and Zhipu exploring custom silicon

Released iLLaDA, an 8B diffusion language model trained on 12T tokens.

Raised $7B in first major funding round, abandoning no-funding pledge

Plans to launch Harness AI coding agent team to compete with Claude Code