TikTok Parent ByteDance Is Moving into Biology, Chemistry and Drug Discovery

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Does that mean we should worry more in the coming years? The point about Chinese tech companies is that they're really innovative, especially in recent years! on the other side, there's no high level of transparency of what they do/intend.

I guess we could expect more innovation in such a highly regulated space, regarding that Chinese government really supports these kinds of advancement. Not so sure what would happen in the dark side.

idk u can't really infer their end goals with such limited information but this itself is probably just a tiny tiny piece of a greater objective, plan, or whatever else is the root cause.

not cause for concern, only significant thing I thought was that they're using tiktok as data sources for a lot more

puts into perspective how valuable their tool is

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