{"id":131597,"date":"2025-06-23T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131597"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T11:00:26","slug":"bytedance-founder-plays-critical-role-in-firms-ai-push-despite-low-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=131597","title":{"rendered":"ByteDance founder plays critical role in firm\u2019s AI push despite low profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostZhang Yiming, the billionaire founder of TikTok owner ByteDance, has become more involved in the company\u2019s artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives, according to local media reports and sources familiar with the situation.<br \/>\nWhile Zhang has stayed out of the public limelight since handing over the chairman and CEO roles to co-founder and former college dorm roommate Liang Rubo in 2021, the 42-year-old Chinese entrepreneur still plays a critical role behind the scenes of ByteDance\u2019s AI research,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3315498\/bytedance-founder-zhang-yiming-plays-critical-role-firms-ai-push-despite-low-profile?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostZhang Yiming, the billionaire founder of TikTok owner ByteDance, has become more involved in the company\u2019s artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives, according to local media&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131597"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}