ByteDance continues to increase its investment in the field of artificial intelligence. Its Doubao Big Model team has established a long-term AGI research team called "Seed Edge" to explore major topics in the AGI field, demonstrating ByteDance's strategic determination and determination in the AI field. Willingness to invest in the long term. The team's research directions cover many aspects such as reasoning ability, perception ability, software and hardware integrated model design, next-generation AI learning paradigm and expansion direction. It aims to promote the development of basic AI theory and technology, rather than just limiting it to the application level. .
According to media reports, ByteDance is increasing its investment in basic research in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), and its Doubao Big Model team has established an internal AGI long-term research team codenamed "Seed Edge". The team aims to explore longer-term, uncertain and bold AGI research topics, reflecting Byte’s strategic determination in the AI field.
According to reports, the "Seed Edge" team has initially identified five major research directions, including exploring the boundaries of reasoning capabilities, exploring the boundaries of perception capabilities, exploring the next generation model design that integrates software and hardware, exploring the next generation AI learning paradigm, and exploring the next scaling direction. This shows that Byte's layout in AGI is not limited to the application level, but goes deep into basic theory and technology research and development.
Although there is controversy in the industry about whether to continue investing in AI pre-training and basic research, Byte has chosen to increase its research on the underlying layers of large models with unprecedented strategic determination, including providing sufficient computing resources, recruiting top research talents extensively, and building a long-term research environment. In May last year, the Doubao Model team launched the "Top Seed Talent Plan" to recruit top doctoral graduates from around the world with highly competitive salaries.
Within just a few months of its establishment, the Doubao Big Model team has published 57 papers at top conferences such as ICLR, CVPR, and NeurIPS. Its research results include open source projects with more than one million downloads and the Ten Thousand Stars project on GitHub. In addition, the team has also cooperated with nearly 20 universities, including establishing joint laboratories in the AI direction with Tsinghua AIR and Peking University. These initiatives demonstrate Byte's strength and determination in the field of basic AI research.
Byte's actions indicate that its goal is not just to become a company that applies AI, but to make a difference in fundamental breakthroughs in AI technology and lay the foundation for future AGI development.
ByteDance's heavy investment in basic research on AGI and its active actions in talent training and academic cooperation indicate that it will play a more important role in the AI field and contribute to future breakthroughs in AGI technology. This is not only an improvement of its own technology, but also reflects its vision for the future development of AI.