[ByteDance Reportedly Entering the AI Assistant Market, Planning to Launch a Meta Muse-like AI Assistant] According to a Bloomberg report cited by IT Home, ByteDance plans to launch an AI assistant similar to Meta Muse in the coming weeks to solidify its leading position in AI video generation and accelerate its catch-up with top US AI labs, aiming to narrow the gap within the next three years. Sources familiar with the matter said that ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming recently introduced the plan at an all-hands meeting with the AI team. Zhang Yiming believes that ByteDance has the ability to compete with companies like Anthropic and OpenAI in cutting-edge AI fields, but cautioned the team that truly reaching the level of these companies will not be possible until at least 2029 or 2030. The AI assistant that ByteDance plans to launch will play a similar role to Meta's Muse, which was launched in September of this year.