"Chinese tech giant ByteDance Ltd. is hiring in the US for nearly 100 open roles within its artificial intelligence division, an effort to compete with the world's leading US-based AI companies despite years of national security concerns from American lawmakers and regulators. The positions, which are listed on ByteDance's career page, are for Seed, its AI team which was established in 2023 and now has labs across the US, Singapore and China."
"Beijing-based ByteDance's US hiring push comes after it announced a long-awaited deal to sell parts of its US TikTok business to non-Chinese owners a move intended to address US national security concerns that have loomed large over the company for more than half a decade. Lawmakers worried that ByteDance could use TikTok to collect valuable data on American citizens, or use the app's content recommendation algorithm to push narratives favorable to leaders in Beijing. The company has said this hasn't happened, nor would it."
ByteDance is recruiting nearly 100 AI roles in the US for Seed, its AI team founded in 2023 with labs across the US, Singapore and China. Open positions cover producing international data for large language models; advancing text, image and video generation tools; researching human-like AI; and building science models to pursue drug discovery and design. The US hiring push follows a deal to sell parts of TikTok's US business to non-Chinese owners intended to address national security concerns. Lawmakers worried about data collection and algorithmic influence; ByteDance has denied misuse. ByteDance operates prominent AI products including chatbot Doubao and recent models Seedance 2.0 and Seedream 5.0.
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