Doubao
Artificial intelligence assistant developed by ByteDance
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Doubao (Chinese: 豆包) is an artificial intelligence assistant developed by ByteDance.
February 14, 2026
| Doubao | |
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| Developer | ByteDance |
| Initial release | August 2023 |
| Stable release | Doubao Seed 2.0 / February 14, 2026 |
| Operating system | iOS, Android, Web |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | doubao |
History
The chatbot was launched in August 2023.
By November 2024, it had become China's most popular AI chatbot, with approximately 60 million monthly active users according to industry analytics.[1] By May 2026, Doubao had 330 million users. In the same month, ByteDance announced the introduction of subscription tiers to Doubao.[2]
Design
Doubao is powered by Volcano Engine (Volcengine), 120 trillion tokens consumed per day.[3]
Variants
Dola
The international version of Doubao is Dola which was launched in August 2023 as Cici.[4] Dola is powered by OpenAI's GPT series of large language models and by Google's Gemini.[5]