ByteDance Develops AI Agent to Rival Meta's Muse

ByteDance is developing an AI agent similar to Muse from Meta, according to PYMNTS, citing Bloomberg. Cofounder Zhang Yiming told ByteDance's AI team at a meeting that the company can compete with Anthropic and OpenAI, though he believes this will take at least until 2029 or 2030, the report said, citing unnamed sources.

The planned assistant will serve a similar function to Meta's Muse personal AI agent, which Meta debuted in September and has begun adding to hardware such as its smart glasses. More than 10 million people in the US and Canada set up Muse in the six weeks after launch, PYMNTS reported. It remains unclear whether ByteDance plans to connect its agent to hardware products.

Zhang is focusing on training data for the project. ByteDance's Seed AI models are pretrained on smaller datasets than models from competing AI labs.