On April 9th, according to Late PostByteDanceThe Big Modeling Team Seed It is experiencing a continuing brain drain, covering a number of core directions, including Infra, visual models, enhanced learning and products, and bytes are becoming a new generation of AI talent cradles。
Infra direction loss is most concentrated. The byte engineering capability is considered to be "more than any company in the country" , core personnel such as Xiaocheng, Zhang Zhang Zhang and Huang Zai have been excavated, and teams responsible for data processing have been recruited in groups
On the overseas side, Chiang Zhiqing has joined Meta, and other researchers are believed to have joined Safe Superintelligence, created by Ilya Sutskever
There was also a mass departure in the visual direction, with Huang Qingai joining OpenAI, Chunyuan Li heading to Google DeepMind, and José joining Meta, Chiang Road Apple; the poem technology created by Wang Chang-ho following his departure completed $300 million C round of financing and created a single financing record in the area of video production in China
ON THE SIDE OF THE PRODUCT, THE GUI AI SMART-BODY SMART TERMINAL WAS VALUED AT HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS BY ZHI JOON, HEAD OF THE SOYBAG PC END-USER BUSINESS; THE NEW PROJECT OF SAM ZHANG LIANG, FORMER HEAD OF THE CAT BOX PRODUCT, WAS INVESTED IN IDG AND THE MISSION。
In the face of the outflow, bytes announced a global salary increase at the end of last year and introduced a virtual equity incentive for large-scale models. As part of the recruitment strategy, U Yonghui moved to re-use young people, and the largest recruitment of interns was launched in March this year, targeting 700 people worldwide
In April, Seed launched a new school call, which is planned to recruit 100 2027 graduates. At present, Seed algorithms and engineering technicians have stabilized at over 1,000 people。