According to Guangzhou Daily, on December 6th, news that 'ByteDance lured away Alibaba's large model talent with an eight-figure salary' quickly sparked heated discussions on social media. Reports indicate that Zhou Chang, the former technical leader of Alibaba's 'Tongyi Qianwen' large model, announced his departure to start a new venture on July 18 this year, but just two months later, there are reports that Zhou has quietly joined ByteDance. This news has been confirmed by relevant personnel from ByteDance. It is reported that Zhou's move is not a solo endeavor; more than ten members of his team have also joined him at ByteDance.

The Intelligent AI Assistant Doubao, developed by ByteDance, has recently upgraded its text-to-image capabilities. The new feature allows users to generate images containing specified text with a single click. The relevant person in charge of the Doubao large model team pointed out that the text-to-image model of Doubao integrates LLM (Large Language Model) and DIT (Digital Image Technology) framework, optimizing its learning ability for Chinese data, and enhancing the generation capability of Chinese characters, significantly improving the generation results.

ByteDance recently released a new feature for the Doubao application - Image Understanding. The Doubao app and PC version have added photo and camera buttons, allowing users to upload images for content recognition. Doubao's image understanding capability goes beyond text recognition; it can also analyze image content and even understand and explain jokes.

The Haidian District People's Court in Beijing has officially accepted ByteDance's lawsuit against former intern Tian, accusing him of altering code to attack the company's internal model training. The company requests the court to order Tian to compensate for 8 million yuan in damages and 20,000 yuan in reasonable expenses, while also demanding a public apology.

Recently, researchers from ByteDance Research Institute and Tsinghua University jointly released a new study, pointing out that current AI video generation models, such as OpenAI's Sora, while capable of creating stunning visual effects, have significant flaws in understanding basic physical laws. This study has sparked widespread discussion on the capabilities of AI in simulating reality. The research team tested AI video generation models under three different scenarios: predictions under known patterns and predictions under unknown patterns.

ByteDance announced that its AI smart assistant Doubao PC has launched a new feature that allows users to easily edit images without the need for professional photo editing skills. Users can simply visit doubao.com, select 'Image Generation' to create an image, click 'Continue Editing', and enter simple instructions to complete the editing with one click. Additionally, users can upload images for further processing through the 'Reference Image' entry.

Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT and Llama have sparked a revolution in the field of artificial intelligence, but efficiently training these massive models while aligning them with human values remains a challenge. Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) has become an important training method for LLMs in recent years, but traditional RLHF frameworks have limitations in flexibility, efficiency, and scalability. To address these issues, the ByteDance Doubao Large Model Team has open-sourced an RLHF framework called HybridFlow.

ByteDance quietly enters the new battlefield of AI communities, drawing industry attention with its internally incubated AI platform, Lumi. Positioned as a community for sharing AI models, the platform is still in the whitelist testing phase, but its complete ecological layout is beginning to take shape. As an important part of ByteDance's strategy in the AI field, Lumi's core positioning is to create a comprehensive platform that integrates model sharing, workflow building, and model training. In the context of AI technology rapidly penetrating various industries, the emergence of this platform may provide developers and researchers with greater opportunities.

Recently, ByteDance quietly launched an AI model sharing community called 'Lumi'. The platform integrates various functions including model sharing, workflow building, and LoRA training, although it is currently still in the internal testing phase. Product entrance: https://top.aibase.com/tool/lumi. The core highlight of Lumi is its model sharing and management features, allowing users to easily upload their developed AI models.

On October 31, ByteDance quietly launched an AI model sharing community platform called 'Lumi'. The platform is reported to offer features such as model upload and sharing, workflow building, and LoRA training. It is currently in the internal testing phase and is only accessible to whitelisted users.

Recently, ByteDance officially addressed rumors regarding an 'intern disrupting large model training'. The company confirmed that an intern did maliciously interfere with the model training tasks of the commercialization technology team's research project. However, this action did not affect the company's official commercial projects and online business, nor did it involve other large model businesses of ByteDance. Moreover, ByteDance pointed out that claims circulating online about 'involving over 8,000 nodes and causing losses of over ten million dollars' are seriously exaggerated. According to public reports, the intern was part of ByteDance's commercialization technology team.

At today's 2024 Volcano Engine AI Innovation Tour, in addition to the video generation model, ByteDance also launched the Doubao Music Model and Doubao Simultaneous Interpretation Model, announcing significant upgrades to the Doubao General Model Pro, Text-to-Image Model, Speech Synthesis Model, and other specialized models. The introduction of the Doubao Music Model signifies Volcano Engine's deep commitment to the field of music creation. Supported by powerful algorithms, this model enables high-quality music creation freely. For lyrics generation, it can quickly generate emotional lyrics based on just a few simple input words.

At the 2024 Volcano Engine AI Innovation Roadshow, Volcano Engine President Tan Dai unveiled the latest Doubao · Video Generation Model. This model incorporates several advanced technologies, including the efficient DIT Fusion Computing Unit, which enables deep compression encoding of video and text; it also employs a novel diffusion model training approach to ensure consistency in generating multi-camera videos; in addition, the model integrates a deeply optimized Transformer architecture, significantly enhancing the generalization ability of video generation.

Today, ByteDance's Volcano Engine announced that the Doubao Large Model will release a video generation model on September 24, bringing upgrades to more capabilities in the model family. It is understood that the Doubao Large Model was officially launched at the Volcano Engine Original Power Conference on May 15, 2024.

Recently, foreign media reported that ByteDance is accelerating its efforts to self-develop and manufacture AI chips to reduce dependence on expensive chips from NVIDIA. The report claims that ByteDance plans to collaborate with TSMC and expects to mass-produce two self-developed AI chips by 2026, having already reserved the production of hundreds of thousands of chips. More notably, the report pointed out that ByteDance aims for its self-developed chip clusters to achieve four times the computing performance of a single H100 chip at a similar cost. In response, ByteDance quickly addressed this report.