According to several sources close to ByteDance, the company's AI core department Seed is undergoing rapid strategic adjustments and personnel changes. Dr. Wu Yonghui, a prominent AI expert who recently joined ByteDance from Google and was involved in the development of Gemini, will replace the original head of the LLM team and Seed, Zhu Wenjia, becoming the new head of the Seed department. Currently, the team is restructuring and adjusting reporting relationships.

The ByteDance Doubao large model team announced today the successful development of a new sparse model architecture called UltraMem. This architecture effectively addresses the high memory access issues during the inference of MoE (Mixture of Experts) models, improving inference speed by 2 to 6 times compared to MoE, and reducing inference costs by up to 83%. This groundbreaking advancement opens a new path for efficient inference of large models. The UltraMem architecture successfully resolves the memory bottleneck during inference of MoE architectures while maintaining model performance. Experimental results show that the parameters and activation conditions are the same.

Imagine being able to see a person speaking, moving, and even performing, all from just a single photo within seconds. This is the allure of OmniHuman-1, recently launched by ByteDance. This artificial intelligence model, which has gone viral online, can create highly realistic videos that bring static images to life. Combined with audio clips, it achieves lip synchronization, full-body movements, and rich facial expressions. Unlike traditional deepfake technologies, OmniHuman-1 is not limited to facial replacement; it can animate the entire person.

In the field of academic research, literature retrieval is a complex and crucial information acquisition task. Researchers need the capability to handle intricate, domain-specific search queries to meet detailed research requirements. However, existing academic search platforms, like Google Scholar, often struggle to address these complex research queries. For example, queries related to non-stationary reinforcement learning using the UCB method require stronger computational and analytical capabilities. Moreover, researchers typically need to spend a significant amount of time and effort manually browsing extensive academic literature when conducting literature reviews.

In 2024, global mobile users spent an astonishing $1.27 billion on AI chatbots and art generation tools. This figure represents significant growth compared to the previous two years, with spending on chatbot applications reaching $1.07 billion, reflecting a strong demand and recognition for AI assistants. According to the latest market report, ChatGPT leads in both downloads and consumption in the AI-generated content (AIGC) application space, becoming the preferred choice for users. Following closely is Google's Gemini.

ByteDance officially launches its latest Doubao large model 1.5 Pro (Doubao-1.5-pro), which demonstrates outstanding comprehensive capabilities in various fields, successfully surpassing the well-known GPT-4o and Claude3.5Sonnet in the industry. The release of this model marks an important step forward for ByteDance in the field of artificial intelligence. Doubao 1.5 Pro adopts a novel sparse MoE (Mixture of Experts) architecture, utilizing a smaller set of activation parameters for pre-training. This design's innovation...

Recently, ByteDance launched an AI integrated development environment (IDE) called Trae, aimed specifically at Chinese developers. This product is designed to compete with internationally renowned tools such as Cursor and Windsurf, particularly focusing on the user experience of Chinese developers. In their daily programming, many developers often need to switch between English and Chinese. This mixed-language working mode, while common, poses inconveniences for many Chinese developers. Existing IDEs such as

New developments in the field of artificial intelligence! Former ByteDance large model solutions architect Pan Yunan has officially joined the startup Lobo Intelligence as co-founder and CTO. This news has attracted widespread attention in the industry, signaling that Lobo Intelligence will accelerate its efforts in the integration of large models and embodied intelligent hardware applications. Founded in January 2024, Lobo Intelligence focuses on innovative applications of large models and embodied intelligent hardware. It is reported that the company has completed angel financing amounting to tens of millions of RMB, which will support subsequent product research and development.

In the field of artificial intelligence, ByteDance's commercial technology team presents the latest achievement, the Infinity model, which has become a new leader in the auto-regressive text-to-image generation domain with its outstanding performance and innovative technology. This newly open-sourced model not only surpasses Stable Diffusion 3 in image generation quality but also demonstrates significant advantages in inference speed. The core innovation of the Infinity model lies in its use of a Bitwise Token auto-regressive framework, which predicts the next level of resolution by +1 or -1.

Recently, there were reports that ByteDance is collaborating with Nubia to develop an AI phone, expected to launch in 2025. According to these reports, the two parties have signed a framework agreement and plan to present a detailed proposal in the first quarter of 2025, followed by prototype production and testing stages, with a product launch event scheduled for late Q3 or October 2025, and the phone priced between 5000 to 7000 yuan. However, in response to this information, a ByteDance representative promptly stated that the information is false, emphasizing that the company has no such plans.

The AI wave is quietly reshaping the toy industry landscape. From the OpenAI toy created in collaboration with Curio by Elon Musk's former girlfriend, to ByteDance's "Eye-Catching Bag", and the popular AI pet Moflin in Japan, smart toys are rapidly occupying the market at an unprecedented pace. Data shows that the global AI toy market is expected to exceed $30 billion by 2024, with an average annual growth rate reaching 20%. Currently, the AI toy market is showing two main development directions: one type integrates AI technology into plush toys, like Moflin and Bub.

According to reports from 'Intelligent Emergence', Zhang Xiaoran, head of CapCut under ByteDance, has left her position. Zhang graduated from Wuhan University of Science and Technology and the Chinese University of Hong Kong and was an early member of the predecessor to CapCut, 'FaceMo'. Since the end of 2021, she has been responsible for the overall business of CapCut, Xingtu, and other products, witnessing the product's journey from its founding phase to a period of rapid growth. In early 2024, she began reporting to the new head of CapCut and other businesses, Zhang Nan, the former CEO of Douyin. During Zhang Xiaoran's tenure, CapCut achieved significant milestones.

In the field of artificial intelligence, ByteDance is ramping up investments at an astonishing pace. According to the latest report from Zheshang Securities, ByteDance's capital expenditure on AI will reach 80 billion yuan in 2024, nearly equaling the total of the three giants Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent. It is expected that by 2025, this figure will double to 160 billion yuan, with 90 billion yuan allocated for AI computing power and 70 billion yuan for data center infrastructure and networking equipment. This investment scale not only demonstrates ByteDance's ambition in the AI sector but also foretells a new development phase for China's AI industry.

According to reports from Blue Whale Finance, Chen Zhijie, the head of algorithms for ByteDance's TikTok, is set to leave the company and has begun preparing a startup project related to artificial intelligence, focusing on AI Coding. Sources reveal that Chen is currently in talks with investors to advance his entrepreneurial plan. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image authorized by service provider Midjourney. Chen Zhijie joined ByteDance in April 2022 as Senior Technical Director, primarily responsible for TikTok's recommendation algorithms.

At the 2024 Volcano Engine FORCE Power Conference in Winter, ByteDance also launched the Global AI Search on Volcano Engine. This service integrates contextual search recommendations, enterprise private domain information integration, and connected Q&A services, closely aligning enterprise information, business needs, and user demands to help businesses achieve more precise recommendations and broader information discovery.