Foreign media: Musk and Zhang Yiming met in 2024

 it was reported by foreign media that Zhang Yiming, the founder of ByteDance, will meet with Elon Musk in 2024. It is reported that Zhou Hengxing, the founder of the technology news website Pandaily, facilitated the contact between Zhang Yiming and Musk, and the two had already met as early as 2014. According to Tencent Technology, Zhou Hengxing stated that in 2014, he introduced Zhang Yiming to Musk and accompanied him to visit Tesla headquarters. In 2024, after Musk publicly expressed opposition to the ban on TikTok, Zhou Hengxing once again facilitated contact between the two. However, it is unclear whether Musk and Zhang Yiming have had an offline meeting.