According to AI Technology Review.byteJump is secretly preparing to establishLarge Model Institute, and actively recruiting talent.
Sources familiar with the matter said that there has beenOutside AI gurus join Big Model Institute, reporting directly to Zhang Yiming.
Since last year, bytes have been announcing the progress of the work related to the big model. According to IT home previously reported, in August 2023, byte self-research bottom big model "lark" on line, then launched AI dialog product "bean bag". In May this year, byte released "bean bag big model" family, launched a price war, claiming that "cheaper than the industry 99.3%".
The report said,In the past, the Byte Big Model team has drawn more talent from Byte's internal lines of business, including Search, Jitterbug, Watermelon, TikTok, etc., there are very few cases of recruiting new No. 1 positions from outside the company. Instead, the Big Model Institute's talent methodology is different, withSpend a lot of money on recruiting talent from outside.
Qin Yuja, former core member of Facade Intelligence, and Huang Wenhao, former core member of Zero One Everything, have joined the Byte Big Model team. It is not clear if they are under the Big Model Institute.