{"id":214913,"date":"2026-02-18T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/chinas-bytedance-releases-doubao-2-0-ai-chatbot\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T11:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:20:16","slug":"chinas-bytedance-releases-doubao-2-0-ai-chatbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/chinas-bytedance-releases-doubao-2-0-ai-chatbot\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s ByteDance releases Doubao 2.0 AI chatbot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/china-bytedance-releases-doubao-2-070756027.html?spot_im_comment_idu003dsp_IjnMf2Jd_a5ef8213-4829-34df-a7da-e81675d08294_c_2u2ZVMrXUoy8JnMxYcGfESCKYEvu0026spot_im_highlight_immediateu003dtrueu0026utm_mediumu003dShareu0026utm_contentu003dsp_IjnMf2Jd_a5ef8213-4829-34df-a7da-e81675d08294_c_2u2ZVMrXUoy8JnMxYcGfESCKYEvu0026spot_im_redirect_sourceu003dshareu0026ow_moduleu003dconversation\">China\u2019s ByteDance releases Doubao 2.0 AI chatbot<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/china-bytedance-releases-doubao-2-070756027.html?spot_im_comment_idu003dsp_IjnMf2Jd_a5ef8213-4829-34df-a7da-e81675d08294_c_2u2ZVMrXUoy8JnMxYcGfESCKYEvu0026spot_im_highlight_immediateu003dtrueu0026utm_mediumu003dShareu0026utm_contentu003dsp_IjnMf2Jd_a5ef8213-4829-34df-a7da-e81675d08294_c_2u2ZVMrXUoy8JnMxYcGfESCKYEvu0026spot_im_redirect_sourceu003dshareu0026ow_moduleu003dconversation\">https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/china-bytedance-releases-doubao-2-070756027.html?spot_im_comment_idu003dsp_IjnMf2Jd_a5ef8213-4829-34df-a7da-e81675d08294_c_2u2ZVMrXUoy8JnMxYcGfESCKYEvu0026spot_im_highlight_immediateu003dtrueu0026utm_mediumu003dShareu0026utm_contentu003dsp_IjnMf2Jd_a5ef8213-4829-34df-a7da-e81675d08294_c_2u2ZVMrXUoy8JnMxYcGfESCKYEvu0026spot_im_redirect_sourceu003dshareu0026ow_moduleu003dconversation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-18 08:59:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.aol.com\">www.aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text-[.923em] text-[#808080] font-semibold leading-[19px]\">Sat, February 14, 2026 at 7:07 AM UTC<\/span><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/TNKCWuhTUn8QDtmdjwLnKQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04Mjc-\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/reuters.com\/97ee3f975702db6220bd4857f2dfae7a\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The ByteDance logo is seen at the company&#8217;s office in Shanghai, China July 4, 2023. REUTERS\/Aly Song<\/p>\n<p>BEIJING, Feb 14 (Reuters) &#8211; China\u2019s ByteDance has \u200crolled out its \u200cDoubao 2.0 chatbot, an \u200bupgrade of Doubao which is currently the country\u2019s most \u200cwidely used \u2060artificial intelligence app, according to \u2060QuestMobile, the company said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>One \u200byear after \u200bChinese \u200bstartup DeepSeek \u200crattled the global tech industry with the release of a low-cost artificial intelligence \u200cmodel, its \u200bdomestic rivals \u200bare \u200bbetter prepared, \u200cvying with it to \u200blaunch \u200bnew models, some designed with more \u200bconsumer \u200cappeal.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Kevin \u200bYao; Editing by \u200bMuralikumar Anantharaman)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/china-bytedance-releases-doubao-2-070756027.html?spot_im_comment_idu003dsp_IjnMf2Jd_a5ef8213-4829-34df-a7da-e81675d08294_c_2u2ZVMrXUoy8JnMxYcGfESCKYEvu0026spot_im_highlight_immediateu003dtrueu0026utm_mediumu003dShareu0026utm_contentu003dsp_IjnMf2Jd_a5ef8213-4829-34df-a7da-e81675d08294_c_2u2ZVMrXUoy8JnMxYcGfESCKYEvu0026spot_im_redirect_sourceu003dshareu0026ow_moduleu003dconversation\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s ByteDance releases Doubao 2.0 AI chatbot https:\/\/www.aol.com\/articles\/china-bytedance-releases-doubao-2-070756027.html?spot_im_comment_idu003dsp_IjnMf2Jd_a5ef8213-4829-34df-a7da-e81675d08294_c_2u2ZVMrXUoy8JnMxYcGfESCKYEvu0026spot_im_highlight_immediateu003dtrueu0026utm_mediumu003dShareu0026utm_contentu003dsp_IjnMf2Jd_a5ef8213-4829-34df-a7da-e81675d08294_c_2u2ZVMrXUoy8JnMxYcGfESCKYEvu0026spot_im_redirect_sourceu003dshareu0026ow_moduleu003dconversation Publish Date: 2026-02-18 08:59:00 Source Domain: www.aol.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/cv\/apiv2\/aolfp\/images\/og-image.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-214913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214915,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214913\/revisions\/214915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}