ByteDance's Seed unit said recent market reports that former Seed member Gu Quanquan had left to found a startup are unconfirmed. The company said Gu participated in biomolecular structure prediction and LLM pretraining work but was not Seed's head of AI drug discovery or pretraining, and it is unaware of his entrepreneurial plans.

2026-06-08

ByteDance's Seed unit said recent market reports that former Seed member Gu Quanquan had left to found a startup are unconfirmed. The company said Gu participated in biomolecular structure prediction and LLM pretraining work but was not Seed's head of AI drug discovery or pretraining, and it is unaware of his entrepreneurial plans.