ByteDance may be planning to move towards Huawei’s Ascend 910B AI chips for its AI models amidst US sanctions and chip shortage.

TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance plans to develop an AI model trained primarily with chips from compatriot Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL), said three people familiar with the matter, as U.S. curbs turn the social media giant homeward in search of chips.

As first reported by Reuters, ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, is planning to train and develop an AI model using chips from fellow Chinese company Huawei. Three anonymous sources approached Reuters with this information;

ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, is reportedly training its AI on chips developed and built by Huawei Technologies.

TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance will train its next-gen AI model using Huawei's latest AI chips, keeping it all in China.

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is accelerating its AI model development by turning to domestic suppliers like Huawei Technologies, according to a recent report by Reuters.

As the U.S. escalates export controls on China, TikTok’s owner is reportedly planning to use a homegrown chipmaker for an artificial intelligence model it’s developing.

ByteDance is training its new AI model on Huawei's chips, which are inferior to the ones made by Nvidia, amid ongoing U.S. trade restrictions on exports to China.

TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance plans to develop an AI model trained primarily with chips from compatriot Huawei Technologies, said three people familiar with the matter, as U.S. curbs turn the social media giant homeward in search of chips.

Based on the latest news, it seems ByteDance is developing a new AI model, and they’re doing it via Huawei’s chips. But what’s the big deal? Call it segmentation, explanation or ‘telling it as it is’ style of explaining things.

Training AI models is far more demanding and requires huge amounts of data, necessitating the use of ultra-high-performance chips such as Nvidia's premium graphics processing units.