ByteDance’s Seed issued an internal memo announcing a new Seed Model-Alignment&Preparedness department, to be led by Yan Lin and reporting to Seed head Wu Yonghui. The existing Responsible AI team and parts of the Chat team will transfer into the unit. The department will scale safety and alignment work—aligning model behavior with human intent and safety constraints—to strengthen agent-model safety and mitigate frontier-capability risks, including CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, nucle

ByteDance’s Seed issued an internal memo announcing a new Seed Model-Alignment&Preparedness department, to be led by Yan Lin and reporting to Seed head Wu Yonghui. The existing Responsible AI team and parts of the Chat team will transfer into the unit. The department will scale safety and alignment work—aligning model behavior with human intent and safety constraints—to strengthen agent-model safety and mitigate frontier-capability risks, including CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear).