NextFin News — ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming told an all-hands meeting of the company’s AI team that ByteDance has the capability to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic at the frontier, but truly catching up to leading technology would take until at least 2029 or 2030 at the earliest.
Zhang said ByteDance’s large models should benchmark against the international first tier. He acknowledged that the pre-training dataset scale for the Seed series models remains several orders of magnitude smaller than those used by top overseas competitors, describing this as the most urgent issue for ByteDance AI at present.
The comments underscore the company’s long-term focus on building foundational models rather than relying heavily on distillation techniques, while it continues to expand its video generation strengths and prepare new agent products.
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