ByteDance Challenges Claim That AI Dramas Consume 55% of China’s Tokens

ByteDance Ltd. rebutted a widely circulated industry claim that AI-generated short dramas consume more than half of China’s computing resources, sparking a debate over how tokens are used in the country’s booming large model market.

While the tech giant argued that video generation accounts for only a small fraction of its overall computing power, the massive volume of tokens required to produce AI short dramas underscores the disproportionate strain that video inference places on servers compared with text or coding applications.