# Dola
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ByteDance's High-Risk Climb: Doubao as the Company's Bid to Own the AI-Assistant Summit
ByteDance has declared its 2026 priority: make the Doubao/Dola AI assistant the central interface that links its consumer apps and cloud services. The company has scaled user adoption rapidly, advanced its model capabilities and pushed into phone‑level automation, but now faces fierce competition from Alibaba and Tencent, regulatory scrutiny, and practical permission barriers from other app and device owners.
China’s Big Tech Escalates the AI Arms Race: ByteDance Vows to “Climb Peaks” as Alibaba and Tencent Counterpunch
ByteDance’s CEO Liang Rubo has set an ambitious 2026 agenda, prioritising the Dola assistant and global talent incentives to secure a leading position in AI model capability. Alibaba and Tencent are rapidly countering with chips, cloud integrations and consumer promotions, turning early 2026 into an industry‑wide scramble across applications, silicon and datacentres.