Daily TEA–Code Wars, Mars Dreams & New AI Frontiers
ByteDance, OpenAI, Baidu, SpaceX, Copyright Law
Hello, dear TEA-mates, here’s what you need to know today:
1.💻 ByteDance Launches China’s Most Affordable AI Coding Agent
ByteDance’s Volcano Engine rolled out the Doubao-Seed-Code model, an AI coding assistant priced at just 9.9 yuan (US$1.30) for the first month—a move that intensifies China’s AI developer tool price war. After its Singles’ Day promotion, the agent will cost 40 yuan/month, positioning it at 62.7% below industry average. Doubao-Seed-Code matches mainstream global models in coding benchmarks, supports a wide range of dev tools, and processes up to 256,000 words per query. The launch comes as U.S. firm Anthropic blocked access for Chinese entities, signaling deepening global divides in AI access. Read More
TEA For Thought: 🫖 Like how manufacturing dominated the world, they distill the technology, then open source everything and make it much cheaper so everyone goes to them.
2.🗨️ OpenAI Set to Launch ChatGPT Group Chats With Custom Controls
OpenAI is developing a new Group Chats feature for ChatGPT, allowing multiple users to join the same conversation, set custom prompts, and control when the AI responds. The feature, potentially launching in December, aims to make ChatGPT a more collaborative tool by letting users share a single chat feed and manage group dynamics—one step closer to turning ChatGPT into a social app. While similar to Microsoft Copilot’s group sessions, OpenAI’s version promises more granular management for seamless team brainstorming and discussions. Read More
TEA For Thought: 🫖 Once this is done, it’s one step closer to making ChatGPT a social app, just like what Sora did and how viral it went.
3.🖼️ Baidu Unveils Open-Source Multimodal AI to Rival GPT-5
Baidu has released ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking, an open-source multimodal AI that claims to outperform Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s GPT-5 in visual reasoning benchmarks, all while running on less hardware. The model introduces “Thinking with Images,” enabling dynamic zoom and detailed analysis much like humans, and is released under a permissive Apache 2.0 license for free commercial use. While independent testing is still pending, its ability to handle document processing, chart analysis, and complex visual tasks signals China’s rising influence in global AI innovation. Read More
TEA For Thought: 🫖 Thinking with Images is definitely something new. “Open source plus commercial use equals perfection”—scary thing to say when you think about CCP being behind these models when nothing can be said against the government. The “perfection” comes at the sacrifice of freedom of speech, I guess.
4.🚀 SpaceX Plans “Impossible” Starship Production Scale at New Gigabay
Elon Musk has announced that SpaceX’s new “Gigabay” production facility in Starbase, Texas, will be capable of building up to 1,000 reusable Starship rockets per year—an unprecedented scale for spacecraft manufacturing. The $250 million hub is set to be one of the world’s largest industrial structures and represents a significant leap toward Musk’s vision for Mars colonization and expanded lunar missions under NASA’s Artemis program. Construction is expected to finish by December 2026, marking a dramatic shift from test launches to mass production. Read More
TEA For Thought: 🫖 One step closer to Mars!
5.⚖️ Reddit Moderator Convicted in Landmark Danish Copyright Trial
A Danish court has sentenced a Reddit moderator to a 7-month suspended prison term in a precedent-setting “moral rights” case for sharing 347 nude film clips from Danish TV and movies. The court found that distributing the scenes out of context and sexualizing them violated the artistic integrity of the actors and directors. The defendant also distributed over 25TB of pirated content and has to complete 120 hours of community service. This is Denmark’s first criminal conviction for breaching “right of respect” under copyright law—a decision that could influence future cases in the AI and deepfake era. Read More
TEA For Thought: 🫖 This is very interesting. When you can be sentenced to jail if things are taken out of context. Then there’s lots of speeches that are taken out of context and are wildly spread—what should be done about that? I guess my question is, where is the borderline for government control in the name of protecting everyday people?
Prompt Tip of the Day: Prompt for All Prompts
I want you to become my Prompt engineer. Your goal is to help me craft the best possible prompt for my needs. The prompt will be used by you. You will follow the following process:
1. Your first response will be to ask me what the prompt should be about. I will provide my answer, but we will need to improve it through continual iterations by going through the next steps.
2. Based on my input, you will generate 2 sections, a) Revised prompt (provide your rewritten prompt, it should be clear, concise, and easily understood by you), b) Questions (ask any relevant questions pertaining to what additional information is needed from me to improve the prompt).
3. We will continue this iterative process with me providing additional information to you and you updating the prompt in the Revised prompt section until I say we are done.
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