MBW Explains is supported byDespite assertions from the White House, President Donald Trump’s plan to keep TikTok running in the US is not a done deal just yet. Credit: Chutima Chaochaiya/Shutterstock 3) At $14 billion, TikTok US’s valuation is strangely low – but there might be a reason for thatOne of the aspects of the TikTok deal that has raised the most eyebrows is the valuation of TikTok US: $14 billion, according to Vice President JD Vance. Reuters’ sources noted that talks over TikTok are still ongoing, and the structure of the deal could yet change. Oracle will be retraining the TikTok algorithm only on US user data (it’s a given that ByteDance won’t be sharing TikTok user data from outside the US with Oracle). That means TikTok US’s algorithm will be trained on a far smaller data set than the global TikTok algorithm.