ByteDance responds to cooperation with ZTE: No self-developed mobile phone plan, release preview version of mobile phone assistant technology.

On December 1st, ByteDance announced that the Douyin team released a technical preview of the Douyin Mobile Assistant, an AI assistant software that collaborates with mobile phone manufacturers at the operating system level based on the Douyin app. Douyin is currently in talks with multiple mobile phone manufacturers for assistant collaboration and has no plans to develop its own mobile phone. The only official smartphone partner disclosed so far is ZTE. As of the time of publication, ZTE Communications' stock price has risen by 6.84%.