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The company is restructuring by... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/bytedance-tops-china-s-ai-revenue-at-4bn-folds-lark-into-doubao-zxqwyuic3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZXqWYuic3.png og:image:alt: ByteDance tops China’s AI revenue at $4bn, folds Lark into Doubao og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # ByteDance tops China’s AI revenue at $4bn, folds Lark into Doubao **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary ByteDance leads Chinese AI companies with $4bn in annual AI revenue, the largest publicly disclosed figure among Chinese firms. The company is restructuring by folding its Lark workplace app (Feishu) into its Doubao chatbot and Volcano Engine cloud units, signaling a strategic pivot away from standalone productivity tools toward AI-first products. Despite topping China's AI revenue charts, ByteDance's figure remains far smaller than US leaders like OpenAI and Anthropic. The company is also investing across the full AI stack, including frontier models, the Seedance video generator, infrastructure, and chips. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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