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Combining GRPO and OPSD, CriPO is a rubric-based reinforcement learning method from ByteDance and Zhejiang University that addresses unexplored and suppressed criteria via self-distillation, achieving better performance and compute efficiency.
Intern Tian Keyu, who was previously fired by ByteDance for maliciously attacking a large model and compensated 8 million yuan, has now obtained hundreds of millions in financing, marking a dramatic turn of events.
ByteDance and Alibaba are disabling custom AI companion features in Doubao and Qwen due to new Chinese rules targeting humanlike emotional interaction in AI services, with user backlash highlighting the emotional attachment these products had fostered.
The ByteDance Seed team released the EdgeBench benchmark, which allows AI models to work continuously for 12-72 hours to evaluate their learning ability in long-horizon tasks. They discovered that the relationship between the time spent learning from the environment and performance follows a log-sigmoid curve, revealing a new scaling law.
ByteDance's VP of Technology Hong Dingkun shared reflections on AI Coding, pointing out that AI code contribution rate should not be a KPI, functional correctness does not equal engineering readiness, and the challenges of team collaboration after the lowering of the coding bar, emphasizing the importance of systematic AI development and foundational engineering.
ByteDance open-sources UI-TARS Desktop, a 100% local desktop automation tool that operates purely on pixels with no API calls, resolving the two major pain points of data privacy and API costs, providing an efficient open-source solution for building private automation workflows.
Quanquan Gu, head of ByteDance Seed pre-training, has announced his departure. He previously led teams for AI for Science (e.g., SeedFold, SeedProteo) and cutting-edge LLM pre-training, contributing to Seed2.0 training.
ByteDance released Bernini, an open-source video generation and editing model on Hugging Face that rivals top closed-source models.
Tencent Docs plans a large-scale layoff, cancels the Beijing office, and requires employees to leave by July 18, with no room for negotiation including for pregnant employees; Shenzhen employees will switch to workbuddy, and ByteDance's Feishu product is under strong competitive pressure.
DeerFlow is a framework for long-horizon SuperAgent open-sourced by ByteDance, designed to improve AI agents' exploration and research efficiency.
ByteDance releases Lance, a 3B parameter unified multimodal model supporting image and video generation, understanding, and editing, trained from scratch with a multi-task recipe.
Quanquan Gu, the researcher behind pretraining scaling at ByteDance Seed, has joined Xiaohongshu (RedNote) and will share thoughts on AI, scaling, and AI for science.
ByteDance releases DeerFlow 2.0, an open-source AI agent framework for local execution of tasks like coding, research, and content generation without cloud dependencies or subscriptions.