ByteDance Doubao + Seed (豆包 / Seed)
Known for: ByteDance's Doubao app, Seed research, video models, Volcano Engine calls, and on-device agent experiments.
ByteDance's Doubao/Seed foundation-model org (Beijing + Bay Area). Wu Yonghui (吴永辉, ex-Google DeepMind VP) joined as Seed lead February 2025; recent coverage emphasizes Doubao's consumer feedback loop, Seedance video, Volcano Engine token share, and ByteDance's experiments around phone/on-device agent access.
- GUO Daya (郭达雅)Researcher, DeepSeek (reportedly departed for ByteDance Seed early 2026)
- DING Ming (丁铭)Now at ByteDance Seed (formerly Zhipu)
- HUANG Wenhao (黄文灏)ByteDance large-model team; former 01.AI technical co-founder / VP Algorithms
- YU Bowen (郁博文)Now at ByteDance Seed (joined March 12, 2026 as post-training lead, Visual Model & Multimodal Interaction Team)
- WU Yonghui (吴永辉)Head of Seed foundational research, ByteDance (since February 2025)
- ZHU Wenjia (朱文佳)Leads Doubao large-model applications, ByteDance
- WANG Mingxuan (王明轩)Senior Researcher, ByteDance Seed; Co-Director SIA Lab (joint w/ Tsinghua AIR)
- ZHOU Chang (周畅)Multimodal Interaction & World-Models lead, ByteDance Seed (joined September 2024)
News & coverage
Notable recent updates, newest first.
ByteDance launches a world model team to enter autonomous driving, marking its strategic push into physical AI.
Doubao (Chinese: Doubao) launches integration with Huawei FreeClip 2 earbuds, enabling dual-agent interaction with Xiaoyi on HarmonyOS.
AI music startup Yinlv Shandong partners with ByteDance's Doubao (Chinese: 豆包) on songwriting app Gege AI, aiming to preserve Chinese folk music with a dedicated model.
ByteDance's Seedance video model scales to 200B-300B parameters, driven by a young researcher's persistence.
ByteDance's Feishu adds a Doubao (Chinese: 豆包)-powered AI agent that users can call in group chats to automate spreadsheet and task work.
Doubao (Chinese: 豆包) will launch Seedance 2.5 video generation model in early July.
Doubao (Chinese: 豆包) launches a paid Pro tier, with a reviewer praising its value and willingness to pay.
Doubao (Chinese: Doubao) partners with Cao Cao Chuxing to integrate ride-hailing into its app.
Nubia shifts all core resources to build its second-generation Doubao (Chinese: 豆包) AI phone with ByteDance, pausing traditional phone lines.
Doubao (Chinese: 豆包)'s daily revenue is under 1M RMB, per a news roundup.