Report: Zhang Yiming says ByteDance may need until 2029-2030 to catch the AI frontier
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-12
Per Bloomberg, ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming told his AI team catching OpenAI and Anthropic at the frontier could take until 2029-2030, admitting Seed models' pretraining datasets are orders of magnitude smaller than leading US rivals'. A Meta Muse-like assistant launches within weeks.
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