ByteDance’s $14 Billion AI Chip Gamble Signals a New Phase of Global Tech Competition
ByteDance, the Chinese technology giant best known as the parent company of TikTok and Douyin, is preparing to dramatically scale its artificial intelligence infrastructure in 2026. According to people familiar with the matter, the Beijing-based unicorn plans to allocate approximately 100 billion yuan, or nearly US$14 billion, toward purchasing advanced AI chips from Nvidia next year—assuming regulatory approvals allow the U.S. chipmaker to sell its H200 graphics processing units to Chinese customers. This proposed investment represents a significant increase from ByteDance’s estimated chip spending of around 85 billion yuan in 2025 and underscores how rapidly computing demand is expanding across … Read more
