Zhang Yiming on ByteDance AI: as early as 2029 or 2030 to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic

Zhang Yiming recently stated at a ByteDance AI all-hands meeting that ByteDance has the capability to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic, but catching up to the cutting edge technology may not be until 2029 or 2030. The most pressing issue for ByteDance's Seed series models currently is that the scale of their pre-training dataset is still smaller than that of top-tier AI companies overseas.