According to Chinese media 36KrByteDance is investing greatly in the field of AI. In addition to concentrating on big design applications and other software application elements, its expedition of AI+hardware has actually continued.
A number of experts exposed that ByteDance’s expedition in the instructions of AI hardware is internally divided into 2 line of product: one line of product is codenamed “D line”, headed by Li Haoqian, the creator of the OWS (Open Wearable Stereo, open wearable stereo earphones) headphone brand name Oladance. ByteDance had actually just recently gotten this brand name. The other line of product is the “O line”, headed by the creator of a business formerly obtained by ByteDance, who reports to Hong Dingkun, the Vice President of Technology at ByteDance.
The focus of the D line will be on wearable gadgets with AI abilities, continuing the previous experience of the Oladance group with earphones– Li Haoqian was a senior executive at earphone producer BOSE before beginning his own organization. The present focus of the O line is on portable AI hardware gadgets. There were previous media reports that the Oladance group would check out head-mounted items comparable to Pico. Upon confirmation by 36Krthis news was discovered to be incorrect.
At the very same time, the individual in charge of ByteDance’s big design group “Dou Bao” mentioned that the Dou Bao company is checking out the mix with smart wearable gadgets to supply users with a more natural and practical interaction experience. We will open the abilities of Dou Bao to numerous hardware producers, hoping to supply style referrals for the cooperation in between hardware producers and Dou Bao’s big model/Dou Bao AI assistant.
Portable gadgets have actually not yet formed a particular shape, 36Kr found out that when ByteDance began the O task, it had actually attempted to look for cooperation with makers such as Xiaomi and Gionee, however stopped working to reach a contract. An expert stated that the O line will likewise look for to land in several situations in the future, which might consist of education.
An expert near to these 2 jobs informed 36Kr that ByteDance creator Zhang Yiming is extremely thinking about the expedition of AI hardware. In addition, ByteDance is likewise carefully seeing prospects in the cellphone market to supplement the core strength of the group.
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