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TikTok owner ByteDance accelerates generative AI efforts with increased talent acquisition, release of new tools
- ByteDance’s website listed more than 320 GenAI-related job openings as of Tuesday, up from 307 vacancies posted a month earlier
- A specific search for jobs in AI large language models returned 130 available positions, compared to 107 found in February
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Social media giant ByteDance, owner of popular short video apps TikTok and Douyin, is accelerating efforts in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) via increased talent recruitment and release of new tools in a field where OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Sora are the technology’s benchmarks.
Beijing-based ByteDance’s website listed more than 320 GenAI-related job openings as of Tuesday, up from 307 vacancies posted a month earlier, according to a search conducted by the South China Morning Post.
A specific search for jobs in the development of large language models (LLMs) – the technology used to train ChatGPT and similar GenAI services – returned 130 available positions, compared to 107 found in February.
The tech unicorn’s so-called Flow department has already poached AI talent from Baidu’s Ernie Bot development team and Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud unit, according to a report on Monday by news portal Sina, which cited an unnamed ByteDance employee. Alibaba owns the Post.
The pace of work at the Flow department – established last year within ByteDance’s product development and engineering operation – has become so intense that its employees have tacitly agreed to work on Saturdays and occasionally do overtime on Sundays, according to the Sina report.
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