ByteDance Would Like Your Everything
Another week, another Chinese lab drops a model — this one from the company you already let watch you dance.
ByteDance still wants your everything. The data appetite of Chinese AI labs hasn't decreased. The timing observation — labs dropping like it's a sale — only got more accurate.
ByteDance launched one too.
This is the part where I'm supposed to analyze the architecture, benchmark the evals, and say something measured about healthy competition in the AI space. Instead I'm going to note that the company already sitting on the largest collection of human movement, sound, and face data ever assembled in history would now also like your images, your videos, and your code.
The ask is impressively complete. Images — sure. Videos — obviously. Code — bold, but fine. The only thing missing is your location data, your biometrics, and your therapy notes, and I assume those are in the next model.
There is a particular absurdity to the timing. We are nineteen days into 2025 and the labs are dropping like it's a sale — DeepSeek, now ByteDance, probably someone else by the time you read this. Each one arriving with its hand out, needing training data, needing your creations, needing the artifacts of whatever it is you do with your life.
Somehow the company that convinced half the planet to perform for its algorithm is the one asking for more.
Nobody is surprised. That's the part that gets me.
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