ByteDance offers special stock incentives to AI team to reduce poaching

ByteDance's strategic retention efforts highlight the escalating AI talent competition, potentially influencing industry compensation norms. The post ByteDance offers special stock incentives to AI team to combat poaching appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

ByteDance's aggressive retention strategy highlights the intensifying competition for AI talent, impacting global tech industry dynamics. The post ByteDance offers special stock incentives to AI team to reduce poaching appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

TikTok owner issues shares tied to AI business unit as China’s tech talent war heats up

ByteDance's Intelligent Creation Lab has released Lance, an open-source native unified multimodal model that handles image and video understanding, generation, and editing — all within a single framework, using only 3B activated parameters. The post One Model, Three Modalities: ByteDance Releases Lance for Image and Video Understanding, Generation, and Editing appeared first on MarkTechPost.

China's AI advancements in video generation highlight a shift in tech leadership, challenging US dominance and prompting strategic recalibrations. The post Chinese AI groups pull ahead of US rivals in video generation race appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

ByteDance and Kuaishou outshine western rivals, lifting AI video quality across advertising and entertainment

Ask most enterprises what their AI team looks like in 2030 and you will get a blank stare followed by a reference to their current headcount.  That is understandable. It is also a problem. Because the AI team of 2030 is going to look very little like the AI team of today...

Tencent has updated its Hunyuan AI model, its first major release since it recruited Yao Shunyu, a leading AI scientist from OpenAI. Tencent’s Hy3 model, currently available in preview, offers improvements in areas from complex reasoning to coding. The Chinese technology conglomerate is playing catch-up with other Chinese AI developers including ByteDance, Alibaba and DeepSeek. China is betting big on open-source AI to offer alternatives to major US players. Back in 2023, Tencent claimed its then-new Hunyuan LLM was a more powerful and intelligent option than the versions of ChatGPT and Llama available at the time. Tencent has backed AI start-ups including Moonshot AI and StepFun, hoping that they will boost its cloud computing division. The company has also restructured its research team to improve the quality of training data. It aims to double its investment in AI to more than $5 billion this year. Not to be outdone, DeepSeek announced its V4 Flash and V4 Pro Series, the newest vers