<![endif] YC Research Subscribe About Apply header section ends header bg section ends By Anu Hariharan Simple Share Buttons Plus (v1.2.1) simplesharebuttons.com/plus Facebook Twitter Linkedin China Essay October 12, 2017 Special contributions from Luke Pryor and Brad Lightcap . Disclosure: I’m a personal investor in Toutiao. Using Machine and Deep Learning to Create and Serve Content, China’s Toutiao Created a Product with Engagement Similar to that of Social Networks – All without a Social Graph Toutiao, one of the flagship products of Bytedance*, may be the largest app you’ve never heard of–it’s like every news feed you read, YouTube, and TechMeme in one. Over 120M people in China use it each day. Yet what’s most interesting about Toutiao isn’t that people consume such varied content all in one place… it’s how Toutiao serves it up. Wit...