After soaring to global attention with its hugely popular TikTok app, Chinese tech giant ByteDance is now positioning itself as a major player in the fast-evolving AI arena.

The model allows users to create deepfakes from copyrighted movies and TV shows, including those featureing Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.

Cinematic clips generated by ByteDance's latest artificial intelligence video model have sparked an online buzz for the Chinese company that recently ceded majority control of TikTok in the United ...