Aug. 6 — ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo told a mid‑year all‑staff meeting that 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

Aug. 6 — ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo told a mid‑year all‑staff meeting that 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.