Gu Quanquan Confirms Departure from ByteDance's Seed Team, Previously Led the Development of SeedFold and Seed2.0 Training System
Gu Quanquan, a core researcher at ByteDance's Seed team, has confirmed her departure. She shared her research achievements in AI drug discovery and pre-training of large language models over the past three years on a social platform. The bio-molecular structure prediction model SeedFold, which she led the development of, performed excellently in multiple public benchmark tests. This departure comes as ByteDance's AI business accelerates its commercialization, drawing attention to the emerging trend of AI for Science startups.