ByteDance's Cici, an overseas counterpart of China's most popular AI chatbot app Doubao, is quietly gaining traction in the UK, Mexico, and Southeast Asia
ByteDance is paying for ads and partnering with influencers to promote its AI chatbot app Cici in countries like the UK, Mexico, and Indonesia. X: @charlesmok , @wired , @zeyiyang , @zeyiyang , @wired , and @wired X: Charles Mok / @charlesmok : The TikTok playbook ByteDance's Other AI Chatbot Is Quietly Gaining Traction Around the World ByteDance is paying for ads and partnering with influencers to promote its AI chatbot app Cici in countries like the UK, Mexico, and Indonesia. https://www.wired.com/... @wired : “Chinese AI companies are probably better positioned... neither Google nor OpenAI have mastered the kind of dopamine-driven engagement that ByteDance built TikTok on,” says Dermot McGrath, an investor and technologist. https://wired.com/... Zeyi Yang / @zeyiyang : Cici looks almost identical to Doubao but has less multi-modal features. It is paying for hundreds of ads on Facebook & TikTok. Cici doesn't mention ByteDance in its app, but its privacy policy says it provides services through other ByteDance AI apps. https://www.wired.com/... Zeyi Yang / @zeyiyang : Scoop: Following our reporting on Doubao, we found that ByteDance's other AI app Cici, targeting markets outside China & US, has been quietly gaining users globally. Cici is the #1 app in Mexico's Google Play Store every day last week and #7 in UK's iOS store today. (more below) @wired : ByteDance is paying for ads and partnering with influencers to promote its AI chatbot app Cici in countries like the UK, Mexico, and Indonesia. https://www.wired.com/... @wired : As the TikTok saga continues, ByteDance has built what is currently the most popular AI chatbot in China. They also have an overseas counterpart: #Cici. While it's not available in the US, it's taking over in Mexico, the UK, and more. #ciciai https://wired.com/...