former head of PopAI for 01.AI and Jimeng’s AI-generated videos platform, ByteDance, has been appointed mobile product leader. He will report directly to CapCut’s Zhang Nan.
Why this matters: ByteDance plans to build a AI-driven version (the Chinese version) of Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, within the next decade. Jimeng’s creation is a key component of its long-term plan to dominate the AI content creator landscape.
Details Prior to joining 01. Cao Dapeng, an AI, worked as a product manager at Feishu, a ByteDance sub-company, which he assumed in 2021. Cao is a good fit for ByteDance, which is known to hire individuals with entrepreneurial backgrounds. He co-founded Nice, an image-based social network app between 2013 and 2017.
- ByteDance Feishu, an app for workplace collaboration similar to Slack or Teams has already integrated DeepSeek.
Context Jimeng launched in May 2024 under CapCut and offers AI image creation, smart canvas and video creation tools.
- Jimeng has seen a rapid growth in its user base, especially after the explosive popularity of DeepSeek. The overflow of DeepSeek users has led to new interactive use cases. For example, generating detailed video scripts using DeepSeek then using Jimeng to create videos. QuestMobile, a third-party analytics company, reports that Jimeng’s active weekly users grew from 760,000 at the end of December 2024 to almost 2 million in mid-February 2025. This is a nearly threefold increase within just one and half months. Shuang is a Shanghai based tech reporter for Technode.com. She covers AI, tech companies, ecommerce, and retail. Find her via e-mail: [email protected]. More by Shuang JING (19659013)
