TikTok said the decisive edge in today’s AI race is not owning the biggest model, but running AI that is tightly optimized for real-world production—where latency, cost, safety, and shifting user behavior matter as much as accuracy.
Speaking Thursday UTC at “Metacon 2026,” a major AI conference co-hosted by TokenPost in Seoul, Kanchan Sarkar, an engineering manager at TikTok (owned by ByteDance), argued that ‘general-purpose’ models are only a starting point. In a session titled “How TikTok Moves the Market in the AI Era,” Sarkar said the industry over-emphasizes model scale while… Read more






