ByteDance launches Seed Edge for AI innovation, aiming for AGI

ByteDance has launched Seed Edge, an initiative aimed at exploring the boundaries of AI and advancing toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), according to Chinese media outlet LatePost. Unlike its previous strategy of rapidly developing models with fewer resources, Seed Edge will prioritize deep, long-term research. The initiative will focus on five key areas: next-generation inference and perception, soft-hardware integrated model design, and novel approaches to model architecture and learning methods. ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has personally engaged with experts and encouraged exploration of foundational topics. The company has already invested in AI talent, publishing more than 100 papers in 2024. [LatePost, in Chinese]