ByteDance denies rumors of Zhou Chang's resignation from Seed team

ByteDance: ByteDance is a Chinese technology company whose AI research unit Seed develops advanced multimodal models and related technologies. The unit has recently established a dedicated Alignment & Preparedness team to advance AI safety research across model training and deployment. Rumors regarding a resignation from its Seed team AI leadership have been denied by company sources. Zhou Chang: Zhou Chang is an AI researcher specializing in multimodal interaction, world models, visual generation, and robotics at ByteDance's Seed team. He joined the company from Alibaba's Damo Academy where he contributed to large language models and has taken on expanded responsibilities in visual and embodied AI projects. Sources close to ByteDance have denied recent reports of his resignation. AI Safety Initiative: ByteDance's Seed AI research unit recently created a standalone Alignment & Preparedness team to focus on frontier model safety, alignment, and risk preparedness. Leadership Continuity: Sources close to ByteDance have publicly denied reports that a core AI R&D lead on the Seed team has resigned.