# Kunlun

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.