China's ByteDance discovers new scaling law that could sustain AI boom

China's technology giant ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, has announced that it has discovered a new scaling law that could help improve the performance of artificial-intelligence models. According to the South China Morning Post, the company argues the finding could help sustain the sector's rapid growth.

Scaling laws describe how the performance of AI models improves as their size, the amount of training data and computing power increase. Researchers say such findings could raise the efficiency of model training.

The discovery comes as US and Chinese companies compete fiercely for leadership in AI. Analysts stress that such technical advances could both lower costs and accelerate the spread of advanced AI systems. The results, however, will need to be independently verified before their significance can be fully judged.