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The Founder Who Lost To TikTok Is Building Its AI Successor

Jan 21, 2026
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Lucky Zhang has spent a decade in the platform-building business, competing directly against TikTok in Latin America, studying its recommendation engine from inside ByteDance, and scaling apps to hundreds of millions of users.

Now his AI app creation platform Sekai is gaining traction as a product that lets anyone create pl…

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