ByteDance

ByteDance is a technology company that owns and operates machine learning content platforms that allow users to connect in communities, create and share contents. The mission of the company is "Inspire Creativity, Enrich life".

It was reported in December 2018 that ByteDance is in talks to raise about $1.45 billion (9.97billion yuan) to invest in artificial intelligence and media content.

In early 2020, it was announced that ByteDance and TikTok had built the technology to allow users to insert their face into videos starring someone else, known as a Face Swap or deepfake technology. The code in both TikTok and Chinese sister app Douyin asks users to take a mulit-angle biometric scan of their face and then add their face to the video they want to share.