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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.