BEIJING, Aug. 6, 2026 - ByteDance held its 2026 mid-year all-hands meeting, where CEO Liang Rubo announced that ByteDance's core businesses comprise three parts: AI, information platform, and transaction services, all closely related and practicing the company mission of "Inspire Creation, Enrich Life" through computing for intelligence. He expressed hope that Doubao will become the company's "trunk" business in the future.
On July 30, 2026, ByteDance initiated clear organizational adjustments: the Feishu product team was merged into Doubao, and the Feishu GTM (marketing, sales, customer service) team was integrated into Volcano Engine, establishing a new ToB GTM organization called "Creativity Service Platform (Creativity Service Platform)".
ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming emphasized in internal meetings that ByteDance insists on self-developed large language models. Liang Rubo stated at the all-hands meeting that ByteDance accepts short-term gaps and continues to bet on long-term self-development. As of late 2025, Doubao's daily active users surpassed 100 million, becoming the first AI-native application in China to reach 100 million DAU.
This restructuring marks ByteDance's AI ToB strategy entering deep water, with the integration expected to enhance synergy across product, technology, and commercial channels.
Source: Tencent News, Sohu, Ifeng
