{"id":24712,"date":"2024-12-09T09:38:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T01:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=24712"},"modified":"2024-12-09T09:38:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T01:38:08","slug":"%e5%bc%a0%e4%b8%80%e9%b8%a3%e8%a2%ab%e6%9b%9d%e5%85%a8%e5%8a%9b%e6%8a%bc%e6%b3%a8-ai%ef%bc%8c%e4%ba%b2%e8%87%aa%e7%9b%91%e7%9d%a3%e5%ad%97%e8%8a%82%e8%b7%b3%e5%8a%a8%e6%8b%9b%e8%81%98%e9%ab%98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/24712.html","title":{"rendered":"Zhang Yiming is exposed to be fully betting on AI, personally overseeing ByteDance's recruitment of high-end talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Dec. 8 report in the Financial Times.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e5%ad%97%e8%8a%82%e8%b7%b3%e5%8a%a8\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [bytejump]]\" target=\"_blank\" >ByteDance<\/a>Insiders say ByteHop founder<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e5%bc%a0%e4%b8%80%e9%b8%a3\" title=\"[Sees articles with [one click] label]\" target=\"_blank\" >Zhang Yiming<\/a>Although he has stepped down as CEO.<strong>But he has been actively involved in the group's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/ai\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [AI]]\" target=\"_blank\" >AI<\/a> strategic<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24713\" title=\"b37a4bccj00so7duq002rd000v9011fp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/b37a4bccj00so7duq002rd000v9011fp.jpg\" alt=\"b37a4bccj00so7duq002rd000v9011fp\" width=\"1125\" height=\"1347\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These sources said that<strong>Zhang Yiming personally oversaw the recruitment of AI engineers and researchers from rival companies<\/strong>Zhang Yiming has spoken internally about his goal of \"general artificial intelligence,\" a system with human-like intelligence. Zhang Yiming spoke internally about his goal of \"generalized AI,\" a system with human-like intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The report also mentions that some industry insiders are skeptical of this goal, as the company has made several failed big bets on the future of technology. He has previously made huge investments in gaming, virtual reality and online education, with ByteHop investing billions of dollars, only to end up shutting down or selling their investments.<\/p>\n<p>ByteDance has attracted top AI engineers and researchers away from Alibaba and startups like Zero One Everything and Smart Spectrum in recent months, according to several people with knowledge of the hiring boom. It has also created and expanded teams to develop its large-scale language models and AI products.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ByteDance is pouring billions of dollars into AI infrastructure<\/strong>. It has purchased enough top-tier GPUs over the past two years to build advanced AI models, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>I1AI notes that the report also claims that ByteDance has a team working on AI chips after poaching leading talent from rival chip companies. According to people familiar with the matter<strong>The team is building an AI Accelerator Specialized Integrated Circuit (ASIC)<\/strong>It's a specialized AI chip for machine learning, modeled after Google's Tensor Processing Unit.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has been actively involved in the group's AI strategy even though he has stepped down as CEO, insiders at ByteDance said, according to a Dec. 8 report in the Financial Times. Zhang personally oversaw the recruitment of AI engineers and researchers from rival companies, the people said. Zhang has spoken internally about his goal of \"universal AI,\" a system with human-like intelligence. The report also mentioned that some industry insiders are skeptical of this goal, as the company has made several failed bets on the future of the technology. He has previously made huge investments in gaming, virtual reality and online education, with ByteHop investing billions of dollars, only to ultimately shut down or sell their investments. According to several people who understand the hiring boom<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[411,548,5168],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-24712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-548","tag-5168"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24712"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=24712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}