TikTok owner ByteDance launches its answer to OpenAI’s GPTs, accelerating a generative AI push amid ChatGPT frenzy
- Coze is described as a ‘one-stop AI development platform’, that allows users to create a bot without coding
- Development comes as ByteDance accelerates its AI push and as it downsizes some operations
ByteDance has launched a platform similar to OpenAI’s GPTs, which allows users to customise its ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) bot for specific tasks, as the Chinese owner of TikTok accelerates its AI drive.
Coze, rolled out on Thursday in China where OpenAI’s services are not officially available, is described as a “one-stop AI development platform” that allows users to “quickly create a bot without coding”.
After building a chat bot, users can share it across other ByteDance apps, such as enterprise collaboration tool Feishu, or even WeChat, Tencent Holdings’ super app with more than 1.3 billion users.
The Coze website is operated by Beijing Chuntian Zhiyun Technology Co, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Beijing Douyin Information Service Co, one of ByteDance’s major entities in China.
ByteDance has recently shut down a gaming platform and a healthcare encyclopaedia, underlining its new focus on AI amid the popularity of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools.
