TikTok owner ByteDance is testing ChatGPT-like chatbot as rush to provide challenge to OpenAI gathers steam
- The chatbot has been built within Feishu, ByteDance’s enterprise collaboration platform known as Lark overseas
- This will be the second time ByteDance has attempted to latch on to the trend of generative AI

TikTok owner ByteDance has joined the ChatGPT bandwagon along with Baidu and Alibaba Group Holding, by testing a chatbot powered by large language models (LLM).
The project, with the code name “Grace”, is an “experimental artificial intelligence chatbot that is still in its infancy and for internal testing only,” a ByteDance representative said on Friday.
The chatbot has been built within Feishu, ByteDance’s enterprise collaboration platform known as Lark overseas, according to one of the testers who experienced it last month. The testing has involved only a select group of employees for the time being, said the person, who asked not to be named as the information is not public yet.
This will be the second time ByteDance has attempted to latch on to the trend of generative AI, as companies worldwide seek to match the success of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which was launched last year to much fanfare. ChatGPT is not officially available in China.
In May, the company tweeted that it was “in the early stages” of exploring a chatbot named Tako, an AI-powered tool to help with search content on its short video hit app TikTok, with select users in the Philippines.