ByteDance
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Oct 27, 2026
Amber KanwarHOST
Talk to me about the AI opportunity in China, because that's been an interesting market that maybe hasn't participated as much, even though they're doing a lot of disruptive things.
Matthew StraussGUEST
They're doing a lot, and later to the race, and we can see that with the LLMs, but then I would immediately add, where they were 2023 or 2024, and the gap between the best LLMs in the US versus that of China, and DeepSeek would be the one, but there's a number that comes from Tencent and ByteDance and Alibaba.
Matthew StraussGUEST
They have really... come up the curve.
Matthew StraussGUEST
So there's still a bit of a gap, but it's a significantly smaller gap.
John GhiorsoGUEST
So when you have a big technology shift, and I'll give you a specific example, which is the TikTok shop one.
John GhiorsoGUEST
So in like, I don't know, 2017, machine learning algorithms pre sort of LLM get very advanced, right? This little company called ByteDance in China uses the fundamental breakthrough of ML to create a better algorithm to serve short form video through a social media app.
John GhiorsoGUEST
TikTok is born and it's incredibly niche and sort of it's this thing for girls, you know, teenage girls doing dances and like you'd be a weirdo to use it as a grown man or adult.
John GhiorsoGUEST
Within two years, It goes from that because of this fundamental technology that they're using.
speaker_3HOST
And that drastically lowers the compute cost.
speaker_2HOST
We are also seeing this highly targeted efficiency in video tools like ByteDance just released CDance 2.5 4K.
speaker_3HOST
Oh, this completely changes the workflow for creators.
speaker_2HOST
Yeah, you experiment and build your video in a very low cost draft mode.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
It had 60 million users by that May, most of whom were very young.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
That September, a Chinese company called ByteDance launched a similar app called Douyin.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
ByteDance bought Musical.ly for up to a billion dollars.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
By August 2018, it had merged Musical.ly into TikTok, and the new social media phenomenon was born.
Nathaniel WhittemoreHOST
The change wasn't just that it was focused on short video.
Jeffrey DingNARRATOR
Among all token consumption in China, AI-generated short dramas and video generation rank first, accounting for 55%.
Jeffrey DingNARRATOR
Given how much attention this claim generated, Liu Xing, the head of public relations for ByteDance's Dobao AI app penned a direct response.
Jeffrey DingNARRATOR
Questioning the reliability of this COL figure, ByteDance disclosed that, only about 10% of the company's total computing power is allocated to the training and inference of video generation models.
Jeffrey DingNARRATOR
For context, ByteDance Hongwa short drama app is the leading short-form TV platform in China, and its daily active user count exceeds the combined figure for China's four main long-form video platforms, Tencent Video, iQIYI, Youku, and Mango TV.
Jeffrey DingNARRATOR
There's an image here, with the caption.
Jeffrey DingNARRATOR
Screenshot from Liu Xing's Weibo, where the red characters mean false.
Ed UlbrichGUEST
Well, what's happening? So there's a new studio.
Ed UlbrichGUEST
It's called ByteDance, right? If we just blind down the, like, check, check, check, what do they do? I think they check virtually all the boxes, right? And then they also own the audience.
Ed UlbrichGUEST
They've got their own thing called TikTok, right? They have the distribution, the audience, they've got the platform, they've got the stuff.
Ed UlbrichGUEST
It's undeniable.
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Ed UlbrichGUEST
Unfortunately, I think probably it didn't work out because I think they've got something better now.
Ed UlbrichGUEST
Right.
Ed UlbrichGUEST
But that deal with, with, with, with ByteDance, with TikTok.
Ed UlbrichGUEST
That's it right there.
Matt BrownHOST
So they are as follows.
Matt BrownHOST
You've got a company called ByteDance, which is the company behind TikTok, which is a Chinese company.
Matt BrownHOST
Amazon is massively into the AI arms race.
Matt BrownHOST
In 2025, Amazon switched on Project Rainer.
Jeff MassieHOST
It also has a fix for a buffered write slowdown that was occurring.
Jeff MassieHOST
Small direct writes got faster on both EXT4 and XFS, and a ByteDance engineer tested it on a PCIe Gen 5 NVMe drive and saw 4K random reads go from about 1.92 million operations per second to 2.19 million, with bigger... bigger gains when you're using IO underscore U ring, which we've talked about in the past.
Jeff MassieHOST
And for ButterFS, Fsync, the call that makes sure your data actually hits the disk can be up to five times faster in some cases now.
Jeff MassieHOST
So a lot of file systems got some love.
Jeff MassieHOST
It also has a fix for a buffered write slowdown that was occurring.
Jeff MassieHOST
Small direct writes got faster on both EXT4 and XFS, and a ByteDance engineer tested it on a PCIe Gen 5 NVMe drive and saw 4K random reads go from about 1.92 million operations per second to 2.19 million, with bigger... bigger gains when you're using IO underscore U ring, which we've talked about in the past.
Jeff MassieHOST
And for ButterFS, Fsync, the call that makes sure your data actually hits the disk can be up to five times faster in some cases now.
Jeff MassieHOST
So a lot of file systems got some love.
Jeff MassieHOST
It also has a fix for a buffered write slowdown that was occurring.
Jeff MassieHOST
Small direct writes got faster on both EXT4 and XFS and a ByteDance engineer tested it on a PCIe Gen5 NVMe drive and saw 4K random reads go from about 1.92 million operations per second to 2.19 million with bigger, bigger gains when you're using IO underscore you ring, which we've talked about in the past.
Jeff MassieHOST
And for ButterFS, Fsync, the call that makes sure your data actually hits the disk can be up to five times faster in some cases now.
Jeff MassieHOST
So a lot of file systems got some love.
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