{"id":15033,"date":"2026-08-08T12:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=15033"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:01:07","slug":"bytedance-trains-massive-ai-model-in-bid-to-rival-anthropic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=15033","title":{"rendered":"ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom:1em; color:#666; font-size:0.9em;\">\n<strong><br \/>\n                    Zijing Wu, Financial Times<br \/>\n                <\/strong><br \/>\n &bull;<br \/>\nAugust 7, 2026\n<\/div>\n<hr\/>\n<p>ByteDance is training an AI model that could approach the size of Anthropic\u2019s most cutting-edge Mythos system, as Chinese companies continue to narrow the gap with the top US labs.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese tech giant is at an early stage of training a model with as many as 10 trillion parameters\u2014three times larger than Moonshot\u2019s Kimi K3, the biggest Chinese model released to date, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The ByteDance model is being pre-trained\u2014a stage that typically takes three to six months\u2014before it is fine-tuned and released if all goes well, one of the people said. The exact model size would only be determined at a later stage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/08\/bytedance-trains-massive-ai-model-in-bid-to-rival-anthropic\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/08\/bytedance-trains-massive-ai-model-in-bid-to-rival-anthropic\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top:1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/08\/bytedance-trains-massive-ai-model-in-bid-to-rival-anthropic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zijing Wu, Financial Times &bull; August 7, 2026 ByteDance is training an AI model that could approach the size of Anthropic\u2019s most cutting-edge Mythos system, as Chinese companies continue to narrow the gap with the top US labs. The Chinese tech giant is at an early stage of training a model with as many as<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/?p=15033\" class=\"themebutton2\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.theck1.no\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}