Bytedance appoints a new leader for the AI ​​Videotool Jimeng · Technode

Cao Dapeng, former head of Popai around 1st Ai, was appointed mobile product manager for the AI-generated video platform from Bytedance, Jimeng, reported the Chinese media company latepost on Thursday. He will contact Capcut Head Zhang Nan.

Why it is important: Bytedance aims to build a AI-controlled version of Douyin (the Chinese version of Tikok) within the next decade, which dominates Jimeng's development to an important part of its long-term strategy to dominate the CHP creation landscape.

Details: Before Cao Dapeng participated in 01. Ai, he had a position in Feishu (Lark), a Bytedance daughter, as a product head, a position that he took in 2021. Between 2013 and 2017 he was a co -founder of the image -based social community app Nice.

• Feishu from bytedance, an app collaboration -app at work similar to Slack or teams, has already integrated Deepseek.

Context: JIMEG, which was launched under Capcut in May 2024, offers AI image generation, intelligent canvas and video creation tools.

• Jimeng's user base has grown quickly, especially after the explosive popularity of Deepseek. Deepseek's overflow of demand has introduced new interactive applications, e.g. According to the Questmobile Questmobile of third-party analysis, the weekly active users of Jimeng rose from around 760,000 to almost 2 million up-to-fat in the end of February 2025 in just one and a half months.

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