The AI Daily Brief · Monday, August 10, 2026
ByteDance is reportedly in the early stages of training an ultra-large AI model with up to 10 trillion parameters, potentially making it the first Chinese pre-training run on the frontier. This development comes as Chinese AI labs are reportedly confident in their ability to acquire necessary compute power.
“The Financial Times reports that BiteDance is in the early stages of a training run that will result in a base model with as many as 10 trillion parameters.”
“Chinese AI labs seem confident that they have the compute needed to pre-train 5 to 10 trillion parameter models.”