China’s ByteDance releases Doubao 2.0 AI chatbot

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Publish Date: 2026-02-18 08:59:00

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Sat, February 14, 2026 at 7:07 AM UTC

The ByteDance logo is seen at the company’s office in Shanghai, China July 4, 2023. REUTERS/Aly Song

BEIJING, Feb 14 (Reuters) – China’s ByteDance has ‌rolled out its ‌Doubao 2.0 chatbot, an upgrade of Doubao which is currently the country’s most ‌widely used ⁠artificial intelligence app, according to ⁠QuestMobile, the company said on Saturday.

One year after Chinese startup DeepSeek ‌rattled the global tech industry with the release of a low-cost artificial intelligence ‌model, its domestic rivals are better prepared, ‌vying with it to launch new models, some designed with more consumer ‌appeal.

(Reporting by Kevin Yao; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)

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