GD Culture Group is a small Nevada-based, Nasdaq-listed company with a Chinese subsidiary and no formal ties to ByteDance, though it produces AI-generated content and livestreams on TikTok as part of its business operations

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GD Culture Group is a small, $47 million market cap, publicly traded company based in Nevada, with a China-based subsidiary, and does not have any official ties to TikTok's parent company, ByteDance

While having no known formal ties to TikTok or its parent firm, ByteDance, Nasdaq-listed GD Culture produces artificial intelligence-enhanced content on TikTok as one of its main operations.

a small tech company called GD Culture Group that, according to The New York Times, has a Chinese subsidiary, only eight employees, and generated no revenue in the year before it announced a $300 million investment plan for the TRUMP meme coin.