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ByteDance reorganizes Seed foundation-model team amid reported 5 trillion-parameter model plans: ByteDance's Seed foundation-model...
Team was restructured into four departments: Pretrain Data, Horizon RL, Product Posttrain-Work and Product Posttrain-Chat. The Work team will handle business and agentic features for Doubao and Dola; reports say ByteDance plans a 5 trillion-parameter model.
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ByteDance reorganizes Seed foundation-model team amid reported 5 trillion-parameter model plans: ByteDance's Seed foundation-model team was restructured into four departments: Pretrain Data, Horizon RL, Product Posttrain-Work and Product Posttrain-Chat. The Work team will handle business and agentic features for Doubao and Dola; reports say ByteDance plans a 5 trillion-parameter model.
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