ByteDance reorganizes Seed foundation-model team amid reported 5 trillion-parameter model plans

ByteDance's Seed foundation-model division has restructured into four new departments—Pretrain Data, Horizon RL, Product Posttrain-Work, and Product Posttrain-Chat—to focus on business applications and consumer dialogue models, according to IT Home. This comes amid reports that ByteDance is discussing a model with more than 5 trillion parameters, though the plan is still in early stages and not officially announced.

ByteDance’s Seed foundation-model division has reportedly completed a new round of internal restructuring. Its foundation-model team has created four new first-level departments: Pretrain Data, Horizon RL, Product Posttrain-Work and Product Posttrain-Chat. The Work team will focus on business applications and agentic capabilities for products including Doubao and Dola, while the Chat team will handle consumer-facing dialogue models. The restructuring follows separate reports that ByteDance is discussing a model with more than 5 trillion parameters, but that plan remains at an early stage and has not been officially announced as a product. IT Home https://www.ithome.com/0/991/856.htm , in Chinese