TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew said on August 1, 2026 in a speech to PhD graduates at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore that artificial intelligence will drive major scientific breakthroughs within the next three years. Former executive at Xiaomi and Goldman Sachs, Chew described the current moment as an era of unprecedented innovation, where technology and society are undergoing self-reinforcing change rather than steady incremental progress. Other tech leaders share this ambitious timeline: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expects a major discovery within two years, while Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei believes AI could outperform humans at most tasks within two to three years. ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, has developed the Doubao AI assistant with 345 million monthly active users and launched the multimodal models Seed2.0 and Seed2.1.
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