ByteDance plans to launch an AI assistant similar to Meta's Muse within the next few weeks, according to Bloomberg. The move aims to consolidate ByteDance's lead in AI video generation and accelerate its catch-up with top US AI labs, narrowing the gap in approximately three years. Co-founder Zhang Yiming presented the plan at a recent all-hands meeting for ByteDance's AI team. While expressing confidence that the company can compete with Anthropic and OpenAI at the AI frontier, Zhang cautioned that reaching their level will take until at least 2029 or 2030. The planned agent mirrors Meta's Muse, launched in September, which integrates Meta's AI research into a voice-interactive assistant featuring an animated virtual avatar capable of completing various user tasks. It remains unclear whether ByteDance intends to develop companion hardware for the assistant.