ByteDance Merges Feishu and Doubao Teams; Weng Li Returns to OpenAI
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-07-31
ByteDance initiated an AI business restructuring: merging the Feishu and Doubao product teams into a new Doubao team, and integrating the Feishu GTM team with Volcano Engine to form a new ToB GTM organization. An internal Doubao office department has also been established.
Weng Li, co-founder of ThinkingMachinesLab, announced her return to OpenAI after stepping down for health reasons. She will focus on recursive self-improvement research.
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, a new AI model capable of full-body control for humanoid robots.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated during the Q2 earnings call that selling computing power for short-term profit is 'stupid,' emphasizing that the company's compute will primarily serve its own models and products.
Unitree Robotics' IPO application for the STAR Market has been approved.
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