Doubao

Doubao
Developer(s)	ByteDance
Initial release	August 2023; 2 years ago
Stable release	Doubao Seed 2.0 /; February 14, 2026; 4 months ago
Operating system	iOS, Android, Web
License	Proprietary
Website	doubao.com

Doubao (Chinese: 豆包) is an artificial intelligence assistant developed by ByteDance.

History

The chatbot was launched in August 2023.

By November 2024, it had become China's most popular AI chatbot, with approximately 60 million monthly active users according to industry analytics.^[1]

Design

Doubao is powered by Volcano Engine (Volcengine), 120 trillion tokens consumed per day.^[2]

Variants

Dola

The international version of Doubao is Dola which was launched in August 2023 as Cici.^[3] Dola is powered by OpenAI's GPT series of large language models and by Google's Gemini.^[4]

External links

References

↑ Du, Wujun (2025-08-22). "Design and Implementation of an Enterprise-Level Chatbot System Based on Coze and Doubao". 2025 6th International Conference on Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Mechanical Automation (IoTAIMA). IEEE. pp. 455–459. doi:10.1109/iotaima66468.2025.11212678. ISBN 979-8-3315-9910-2. https://doi.org/10.1109/iotaima66468.2025.11212678.
↑ 于小明. "ByteDance Volcano Engine says Doubao uses 120 trillion tokens per day". https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202604/02/WS69ce3326a310d6866eb41733.html.
↑ Team, Research (2026-02-05). "Doubao Statistics and Insights". https://dataglobehub.com/doubao-statistics-and-insights/.
↑ Yang, Zeyi. "ByteDance’s Other AI Chatbot Is Quietly Gaining Traction Around the World" (in en-US). Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. https://www.wired.com/story/bytedances-ai-chatbot-is-quietly-gaining-traction-around-the-world/.

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[1] Du, Wujun (2025-08-22). "Design and Implementation of an Enterprise-Level Chatbot System Based on Coze and Doubao". 2025 6th International Conference on Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Mechanical Automation (IoTAIMA). IEEE. pp. 455–459. doi:10.1109/iotaima66468.2025.11212678. ISBN 979-8-3315-9910-2. https://doi.org/10.1109/iotaima66468.2025.11212678.

[2] 于小明. "ByteDance Volcano Engine says Doubao uses 120 trillion tokens per day". https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202604/02/WS69ce3326a310d6866eb41733.html.

[3] Team, Research (2026-02-05). "Doubao Statistics and Insights". https://dataglobehub.com/doubao-statistics-and-insights/.

[4] Yang, Zeyi. "ByteDance’s Other AI Chatbot Is Quietly Gaining Traction Around the World" (in en-US). Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. https://www.wired.com/story/bytedances-ai-chatbot-is-quietly-gaining-traction-around-the-world/.

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