ByteDance
Corporate ownership and the company’s role in compute infrastructure.
TypeAI LabHQCN
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supply relationships · 2 with suppliers, 0 with customers
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export-control designations found
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- Scrutica id
- org-bytedance
- LEI
- 54930057HU24VGK3CO92
Name and corporate-form variants · 2 Bytedance · ByteDance Ltd.
Acquired entities · 1 zijie tiaodong youxian gongsi
Unclassified · 1 Volcano Cloud
Ownership chain
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- ByteDance (CN)LEI 54930057HU24VGK3CO92
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End of the displayed chain
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Known facilities
Sites attributed to this company as owner, operator or AI-hardware owner.
Suppliers and customers
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Upstream Suppliers · 2 records
Ascend 910C AI accelerators ($5.6B commitment)
Scrutica research synthesis (public sources)AI training/inference GPUs (H20; $16B stockpile pre-ban)
Scrutica research synthesis (public sources)
Downstream Customers · 0 records
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- ByteDance: 2 supply-chain relationships
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- 1 facility linked to ByteDance
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- Headquarters country: China
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Source coverage
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ByteDance chip observations
Estimates from the listed sources, with unknown quantities shown explicitly. Shared resources, purchases and reported deployments have different meanings. Company observations do not establish a model’s training allocation.
| Chip class / organisation | Quantity | Scope | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA H20 | Unknown | Deployment status unknown Disputed report Disputed press report; stock quantity, deployment and regulatory-freeze status unestablished. | Source 2025-04-28 Tier 4 · quantity not established Evidence scopeSCMP reports H20 holdings and proposed sales involving ByteDance, while also recording ByteDance’s denial of the report. No unit count, installed inventory or September regulatory freeze is established here. No inference of frozen or deployed inventory is made from the checked source. |
| Huawei AI chips (model unspecified) | Unknown | Planned use Planned inference use; chip model, quantity and deployment unestablished. | Source 2025-07-26 Tier 3 · source reporting Evidence scopeFootnote 19 of the July 26, 2025 Epoch article reports ByteDance planning to use Huawei chips for inference. It does not identify 100,000 Ascend 910B chips or an installed fleet. Retained only at the source-supported planned-use scope. The original 100,000-unit assertion is withheld. |
Sums of recorded estimates, by scope
- Planned use
- Unknown · quantities unavailable for 1 observation
- Deployment status unknown
- Unknown · quantities unavailable for 1 observation
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1 organisations with publishable observations · 2 chip categories. Source dates: 2025-04-28–2025-07-26.