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Nov 6, 2026
Jess JessopHOST
BBC Wales just tested a batch of AI teddy bears.
Jess JessopHOST
There's a seventy-five-pound toy called My Baby Bunny, also known as Doubao.
Jess JessopHOST
A reporter asked it what the word sexual means.
Jess JessopHOST
The toy misheard her and replied, "I can't help with killing you."
FeifeiHOST
into the traditional plush toys.
FeifeiHOST
But she did enjoy chatting with chatbots like Doubao.
FeifeiHOST
She would have very meaningless conversations with Doubao because I can see all of her conversations.
FeifeiHOST
But maybe in some days.
FeifeiHOST
Hashtag privacy.
Kaize ZhuGUEST
People taking AI as very dangerous, as a very smart thing, because they might be using cloud, they are using GPT, they are using maybe deep seek for the enterprise.
Kaize ZhuGUEST
But if you are using co-pilot or if you are using Gemini or you are using some of the Chinese, like Doubao, you would, it's very hard for you to feel dangerous when using all those AI tools, because you are saying that, ah, I'm doing much better job than those AI arms.
Kaize ZhuGUEST
So the first is you need to choose the right AI arms.
Kaize ZhuGUEST
And second, you still need to know how to use them.
Steven SirskiHOST
Now, to be clear, in class...
Steven SirskiHOST
I only refer to Doubao and DeepSeq or Kimi, which are, those are the three big Chinese models.
Steven SirskiHOST
So DeepSeq is the big one.
Steven SirskiHOST
Doubao is a very popular one.
Steven SirskiHOST
They haven't really used QN, like it doesn't come up, QN.
Steven SirskiHOST
And same with, what's the other one that pops up quite a bit? QN, there's Kimi.
Olivia PlotnickHOST
I want to touch on one last topic to get your quick reactions.
Olivia PlotnickHOST
I saw a news story this morning from China Economic Review tagging a report from Kaixin on Doubao, which is one of the more popular AI apps from ByteDance.
Olivia PlotnickHOST
And it said that more than 150 mobile apps, including WeChat and Taobao, have now opted out of allowing users ByteDance's Doubao AI smartphone assistant to operate them autonomously.
Olivia PlotnickHOST
I'm curious what your quick take on this is, because there's been a lot of discussion around how is consumer AI being adopted here in China? And are there any successful examples? I think Doubao comes up as one that's being used a lot.
Olivia PlotnickHOST
So what does this mean for their evolution and use in the market?
Robert WuHOST
I think I just want to make an observation about AI in general in that one really interesting thing I'm watching today is in terms of technology, the AI is already very advanced.
Jon KrohnHOST
China makes for a fascinating natural laboratory because AI adoption among students there has been fast.
Jon KrohnHOST
About 80% of students reported using chatbots like DeepSeek or ByteDance's Doubao, while the remaining 20%, just a fifth, did not.
Jon KrohnHOST
Because students started using AI at different times, the researchers could exploit that staggered adoption in what's called a difference-in-differences design, comparing how each student's outcomes changed after adopting AI against the trajectories of students who hadn't adopted yet.
Jon KrohnHOST
That's a big step up from the typical one-off correlational snapshot that we get in big studies of human behavior.
Steven SirskiHOST
After that, in terms of like, why do they need me? So that-- They could have done that on their own, sure.
Steven SirskiHOST
But then even prompting after, I said, "Okay, take a picture of the essay, take the two, uh, PDF files, drop that all onto your DeepSeek or Doubao or whatever you're using, and use this prompt." And I gave them a prompt on the board, and I kinda go, "Wow." Now I am a prompt jockey or a prompt monkey for-- Uh, I'm a prompt e-engineer for these, uh, these students.
Steven SirskiHOST
Now, once you learn how to do prompting, and it i- I would say it's more of an art than a science, uh, that you do have to understand how the, like, your, the AI is going to respond to it, uh, and that every person is gonna have a different, um-- Their AI is gonna respond differently based on the criteria that they, uh, provided in context of their, their AI platform overall.
Steven SirskiHOST
Anyway, so they did that.
Sam RadwanGUEST
So one month it's Qwen that everybody's after and looking to use.
Sam RadwanGUEST
Uh, this month I believe it's, uh, Doubao that's owned by ByteDance, you know, uh, the TikTok company, right? Uh, so the, the competition's very fierce.
Sam RadwanGUEST
And then you had two IPOs of Jeepwu and Minimax, right? Uh, so you had a look into the financials of a pure-play LLM.
Sam RadwanGUEST
And if you take a look at the margins, uh, there is no doubt about it that their margins are getting squeezed from all this competition.