Aug. 6 — ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo told a mid‑year all‑staff meeting that the
The company’s large language models have fallen behind leading overseas models but
ByteDance will persist with internal R&D, focus on fundamentals and accept
short‑term lag to optimize long‑term outcomes. Liang said the choice is not
driven by external pressure but by a deliberate push for engineering discipline
and delayed gratification, which he called essential for achieving AGI. Tan Dai,
head of the Creativity Services platform, said only SOTA models unlock
high‑value B2B scenarios; the company’s video generation model Seedance2.0 has
moved the technology from a “toy” to commercial content production, with weekday
invocation volumes substantially higher than weekends.
