ByteDance
- Chinese name
- 字节跳动
- Pinyin
- Registered name
- 北京抖音信息服务有限公司
- Unified Social Credit Code
911101085923662400registered in Beijing 北京- Website
- 7971385177
Models and generation engines · Hyperscaler platforms
ByteDance (字节跳动)’s Beijing operating company, Beijing Douyin Information Service (北京抖音信息服务有限公司), was named Beijing ByteDance Technology Co., Ltd. (北京字节跳动科技有限公司) until May 2022 and holds the ICP filing for bytedance.com (京ICP备12025439号). In August 2023 it filed with the Cyberspace Administration of China the Volcano Engine virtual digital human algorithm (火山引擎虚拟数字人算法), the deep-synthesis algorithm behind Volcano Engine’s virtual digital humans, for use in Douyin, Toutiao and Xigua Video.
ByteDance’s digital-human research covers single-image-plus-audio human video generation, long-sequence audio-driven human video, lip-sync at phoneme level, micro-expression control, and 3D head and avatar asset creation, with named projects including OmniHuman (and OmniHuman-1.5), LatentSync (1.5 and 1.6), InfinityHuman, MimicTalk, and Goku (悟空). Reported releases and updates throughout 2025 describe OmniHuman-1 as generating digital humans from a single photo and audio clip, OmniHuman-1.5 as advancing realism and emotional expression and being surfaced through Seedance on CapCut Web, and LatentSync as an end-to-end lip-sync framework that was jointly open-sourced with Beijing Jiaotong University and later updated to version 1.6. Academic and lab linkages were also reported, including collaboration with HKU on Goku and joint work with Zhejiang University on InfinityHuman and MimicTalk, alongside a described internal “Intelligent Creation Digital Human team” and “Intelligent Creation Lab” supporting multiple ByteDance business lines and commercialization needs, including scenarios framed as scalable creation of large numbers of avatars.
ByteDance’s digital-human products are run by group companies with their own records: Douyin (北京抖音科技有限公司), the short-video and livestreaming platform; Ocean Engine (北京巨量引擎网络技术有限公司), whose Jichuang (即创) platform makes marketing digital humans; Doubao (北京春田知韵科技有限公司), the AI assistant whose app makes digital-human avatars of its users; Faceu Technology (深圳市脸萌科技有限公司), which runs Jianying and Jimeng AI; and Volcano Engine (北京火山引擎科技有限公司), which sells virtual digital humans to enterprises.