Zhang Yiming tells ByteDance to build AGI the right way, lags OpenAI until 2029-2030

ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming reportedly told his AI team to avoid model distillation shortcuts and pursue AGI the right way, while admitting ByteDance may not catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic until 2029 or 2030.

2026-11-12 ~ 2026-11-12 · 2 related posts

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