{"id":152397,"date":"2026-06-03T05:59:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152397"},"modified":"2026-06-03T05:59:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T05:59:48","slug":"is-china-ready-to-pay-for-ai-bytedances-doubao-loses-6-million-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152397","title":{"rendered":"Is China ready to pay for AI? ByteDance\u2019s Doubao loses 6 million users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostByteDance risks throwing away its lead in China\u2019s fierce artificial intelligence consumer race by monetising too early, according to analysts, after its flagship chatbot Doubao shed millions of users following a sneak peek at paid-subscription tiers.<br \/>\nThe assessment follows a 6.1 million drop in Doubao\u2019s monthly active users (MAUs) in May \u2013 a rare slump for the app since its 2023 launch \u2013 after it teased its first-ever subscription options, according to data released on Wednesday by global AI&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3355782\/china-ready-pay-ai-bytedances-doubao-loses-6-million-users?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 PostByteDance risks throwing away its lead in China\u2019s fierce artificial intelligence consumer race by monetising too early, according to analysts, after its flagship chatbot&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\/152397"}],"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=152397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}