{"id":132548,"date":"2026-08-07T06:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/132548\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T06:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:21:08","slug":"bytedance-targets-mega-ai-model-that-could-match-mythos-scale-ft-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/132548\/","title":{"rendered":"ByteDance targets mega AI model that could match Mythos scale, FT reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Aug 7 (Reuters) &#8211; ByteDance is training an <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:AI;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;AI&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"no-affiliate-link link\">AI<\/a> model with as many as 10 trillion parameters that could be close to \u200cthe size of Anthropic&#8217;s cutting-edge Mythos system, the Financial Times \u200creported on Friday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">With 10 trillion parameters, the model \u200bwould be more than three times the size of Chinese startup Moonshot AI&#8217;s Kimi K3, which has 2.8 trillion parameters.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">An AI model&#8217;s parameters refer to the numerical settings a model learns from data to recognize patterns, generate \u200canswers, and carry out \u2060tasks. They are often used as a rough measure of scale, though not necessarily capability.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Reuters could not immediately verify \u2060the report. ByteDance did not immediately respond to Reuters&#8217; request for comment.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Before Kimi K3&#8217;s release, Meituan&#8217;s LongCat-2.0 and DeepSeek&#8217;s V4-Pro led China&#8217;s AI industry with \u200b1.6 trillion \u200btotal parameters, while several other domestic \u200brivals have passed the trillion-parameter \u200cthreshold.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">But direct comparisons with leading U.S. AI models are difficult because companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI do not disclose the parameter counts for systems including Fable, Mythos or GPT-5.5.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">According to FT, industry estimates say Anthropic&#8217;s most advanced Mythos 5 has about 8 trillion parameters and Fable 5 \u200cabout 5 trillion, making ByteDance&#8217;s new AI \u200bmodel close to the size of Mythos.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The \u200bnews comes as Chinese tech \u200bfirms continue to accelerate their model release cycles to \u200ckeep up with the intensifying global \u200bAI race, battling with \u200bU.S. rivals to build more powerful systems without making them prohibitively expensive to run.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">The ByteDance model is currently undergoing pre-training, a \u200bprocess that typically lasts \u200cthree to six months, before it can be fine-tuned and released, \u200bthe FT report said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">(Reporting by Ananya Palyekar in Bengaluru; Editing \u200bby Mrigank Dhaniwala and Sonia Cheema)  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 7 (Reuters) &#8211; ByteDance is training an AI model with as many as 10 trillion parameters that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,6657,38594],"class_list":["post-132548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-anthropic","tag-bytedance","tag-model-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}