ByteDance and Alibaba are preparing to release new flagship AI models around the Lunar New Year holiday to capture the Chinese market. ByteDance plans to debut Doubao 2.0 alongside image and video generation tools, while Alibaba aims to roll out Qwen 3.5 with enhanced reasoning capabilities. The tech giants compete against DeepSeek as they integrate these tools into their respective apps to dominate the local cloud and consumer sectors.
