Zhang Yiming
Chinese internet entrepreneur and former CEO of ByteDanceWikipedia
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Sep 17, 2026
Michelle MartinHOST
Yes, the Asia Rich List, which I pass through occasionally.
Michelle MartinHOST
ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has overtaken Indian tycoon Gautama Dhani with a fortune of more than US$105 billion.
Michelle MartinHOST
It's a changing of guard, which I think captures a larger shift in how Asian wealth is really being created.
Michelle MartinHOST
We're seeing a move from physical infrastructure and commodities towards platforms, algorithms and AI.
Yahira AnandCORRESPONDENT
The country has, of course, been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the AI build-out.
Yahira AnandCORRESPONDENT
And ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming is now Asia's richest person, overtaking Indian billionaire Gautam Adani.
Yahira AnandCORRESPONDENT
The B- Bloomberg Billionaires Index puts Zhang's fortune at more than $105 billion as ByteDance pushes deeper into AI and moves past that regulatory fight that nearly forced TikTok, TikTok out of the US.
Yahira AnandCORRESPONDENT
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Alex ColvilleGUEST
It's just you can train off of the outputs of an AI model, which is slightly less efficient than doing what multiple different Chinese AI labs have been doing, which is training off the reasoning traces of these AI models, learning how these models think.
Alex ColvilleGUEST
But interestingly, Jiang Yiming, the co-founder of ByteDance, held an all-hands meeting where he said, we're not going to be distilling off of any models.
Alex ColvilleGUEST
Because what inevitably happens there in his mind is that you essentially you will only have your model be as intelligent as the model that you are distilling off of.
Alex ColvilleGUEST
And for me, I don't know if you guys have read Chris Miller's Chip War.
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AmberCORRESPONDENT
Y, Edo, hay un hito notable en el frente de la riqueza.
Edo SegalHOST
El fundador de ByteDance, Zhang Yiming, superó a Gautam Adani este miércoles para convertirse en la persona más rica de Asia, con Bloomberg estimando su fortuna en ciento cinco mil millones de dólares, un incremento de ocho veces desde 2019.
Edo SegalHOST
El motor, el chatbot Doubao de ByteDance, acaba de superar los setenta y cinco millones de usuarios activos mensuales y su empresa conjunta, TikTok US, con Oracle y Silver Lake, cerró a principios de este año.
Edo SegalHOST
El dinero fluye y el debate sobre qué tan rápido y a qué costo solo se hace más intenso.
Alice HanHOST
And couple reasons.
Alice HanHOST
One, I think we were very surprised 10 years ago by the ascent of TikTok, but TikTok showed that a very Chinese company run by Zhang Yiming, a very Chinese founder, could be lauded and celebrated and accepted and, uh, worldwide.
Alice HanHOST
And it is, you know, still one of the fastest-growing social media companies in the world.
Alice HanHOST
Uh, it, uh, you know, APAC is a big part of this, and here I get...
Robert WuHOST
So that would be very interesting who exactly get a chance to go there.
Robert WuHOST
Because last year, not last year, last time when the U.S. visited, an obvious absence was Zhang Yiming, founder of ByteDance, if I remember correctly.
Robert WuHOST
He was not invited in the meeting.
Robert WuHOST
But I think he was one of the, his group is one of the ones that have the highest stakes there, right? So I would want Chinese companies who have an actual big stake in U.S.-China relationship should be included.
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Olivia PlotnickHOST
Do you think that becomes a bigger issue as they really get more into this IPO process?
Robert WuHOST
Yeah, definitely, definitely.
Robert WuHOST
And I think that's also why when Jiang Yiming of ByteDance said that they didn't want to rely on these short-term tricks, they mean it.
Robert WuHOST
But again, I don't think these distillation or short-term tricks will be fundamental.
AlexHOST
A world model is an AI that simulates realistic physical environments.
NeilHOST
Zhang Yiming is personally leading this new development project.
NeilHOST
A new sedans-based spatial model could launch next month.
AlexHOST
Independent creators are already finding clever ways to use this.
AminHOST
In the international development space, TikTok parent company ByteDance is reportedly building a world model on top of its Seedance video AI.
AminHOST
Founder Zhang Yiming is personally running the project, with a launch possibly arriving in October.
LeahHOST
I want to pause on that term for a moment because it gets thrown around a lot.
LeahHOST
For anyone wondering what separates a world model from a standard video generator, a standard generator just predicts what pixels should come next based on the prompt.
speaker_0HOST
iOS 27 adds spatial reframing to shift photo perspectives and extend to expand photo edges with generative AI, but Apple's philosophy is enhancing real moments, not remixing them, a deliberate split from competitors.
speaker_0HOST
And ByteDance is prepping a real-time spatial video AI model for PicoVR, built on its Seedence video AI, run by founder Zhang Yiming, with a possible October launch.
speaker_0HOST
Virtual worlds that respond to your voice and movements are coming.
speaker_0HOST
Now, for today's idea check, where we look at two new builder tools from Product Hunt.
speaker_0HOST
Seriously.
speaker_0HOST
And on the global stage, TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, led by Zhang Yiming, is reportedly building a world model on top of their Sedans Video AI, potentially launching in October.
speaker_1HOST
And a world model is a massive architectural leap.
speaker_1HOST
I mean, standard video generation AI just predicts what the next pixel should look like based on patterns.
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