Doubao
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| Doubao | |
|---|---|
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| Developer | ByteDance |
| Initial release | August 2023; 2 years ago |
| Stable release | Doubao Seed 2.0 / |
| Operating system | iOS, Android, Web |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | doubao |
Doubao (Chinese: 豆包) is an artificial intelligence assistant developed by ByteDance.
The chatbot was launched in August 2023.
By November 2024, it had become China's most popular AI chatbot, with approximately 60 million monthly active users according to industry analytics.[1] By May 2026, Doubao had 330 million users. In the same month, ByteDance announced the introduction of subscription tiers to Doubao.[2]
Doubao is powered by Volcano Engine (Volcengine), 120 trillion tokens consumed per day.[3]
The international version of Doubao is Dola which was launched in August 2023 as Cici.[4] Dola is powered by OpenAI's GPT series of large language models and by Google's Gemini.[5]
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