ByteDance Plans to Launch Muse-Like AI Assistant Within Weeks

According to Bloomberg, ByteDance plans to launch an AI assistant similar to Meta's Muse within the coming weeks to expand its edge in AI video generation and narrow the gap with leading U.S. labs. Co-founder Zhang Yiming recently outlined the plans at an all-hands meeting of the AI team, targeting the ability to compete at the highest level with companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI by 2029 or 2030.

Zhang Yiming prioritized data as a key task, noting that the training dataset size used by the Seed language model is significantly smaller than that of leading international competitors. The new assistant will complement the Seedance video generation model series, with plans including spending of up to $70 billion. The Seed team consists of about 1,000 researchers and engineers, led by Wu Yonghui, who joined from Google DeepMind in 2025; the team established an independent safety and alignment division in October, hiring around 10 experts.

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