[ByteDance ramps up procurement of domestic chips, as internet giants race to build computing power moats]

Published: Jun 18, 2026 10:34
ByteDance's data center construction has seen new progress, with industry sources saying the company is in discussions with Tianshu Zhixin to procure at least 50,000 AI chips, primarily for inference workloads. It is understood that the chips under negotiation are mainly intended for large model inference workloads, corresponding to Tianshu Zhixin's Zhikai series cloud inference GPUs, while the Tiangai series is used for training scenarios. If the deal goes through, Tianshu Zhixin would become ByteDance's third GPU supplier, following Huawei and Cambricon. As of press time, neither ByteDance nor Tianshu Zhixin has publicly responded. The move by Internet giants represented by ByteDance to ramp up self-built data centers is not merely a short-term stopgap to fill a computing power gap, but rather reflects a deep industry transformation: AI computing demand is undergoing a structural shift, enterprises' strategies for self-controlled computing power are continuously escalating, and the separation of training and inference hardware, along with the large-scale substitution of domestic computing power, are synchronously entering the implementation cycle.

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