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ByteDance has established a large-scale model research institute to recruit AI talents with "paying money"

2024-08-27

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IT Home reported on August 27 that according to AI Technology Review, ByteDance is secretly preparing to establish a large model research institute and is actively recruiting talent.

According to people familiar with the matter,External AI experts join the Big Model Research Institute, reports directly to Zhang Yiming.

Since last year, ByteDance has successively announced the progress of its work on large models. According to previous reports by IT Home, in August 2023, ByteDance's self-developed underlying large model "Skylark" was launched, and then the AI ​​dialogue product "Doubao" was launched. In May this year, ByteDance released the "Doubao Large Model" family and launched a price war, claiming to be "99.3% cheaper than the industry."

The report said,In the past, the talents of ByteDance’s big model team came more from ByteDance’s internal business lines., including search, Douyin, Xigua, TikTok, etc., rarely recruit new No. 1 positions from outside the company. The talent methodology of the Big Model Research Institute is different from the past.Spend a lot of money to recruit talents from outside

Qin Yujia, a former core member of Mianbi Intelligence, and Huang Wenhao, a former core member of Zero One Everything, have joined the Byte Big Model team. It is not clear whether they are affiliated with the Big Model Research Institute.