Institutional dossier
The documented history of ByteDance Seed / 字节跳动 Seed: chronology, people, research, capital and compute, and governance. Every statement opens its source and its limits.
Records dated 2023 to 2026-10-14 · 0 undated
5 claims · 4 sources · 5 not editorially accepted. The counts describe this selection. They do not measure completeness or independent confirmation.
Scope, evidence and limits
Description: ByteDance's foundation-model team, which states that it was founded in 2023.
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Chronology
Records about the institution itself and documented changes to its frameworks, by year. Expand a year to read the claims. People’s other institutional records and related documents have their own sections. Where a date gives only the year or month, the order within it is unknown.
2023Record year · 1 claims
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported
Qualification and date notes
A self-description in a model card, not a registration or reorganisation record; the team’s relation to earlier ByteDance AI units is not established here.
Year as stated; no month or day given.
2025Record year · 2 claims
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported Rests on reporting
Qualification and date notes
The record rests on reporting; it relays the appointment from unnamed sources and gives no ByteDance announcement or start date. Wu’s reporting line and division of work with Zhu Wenjia rest on an unnamed person close to ByteDance. English rendering of the Chinese passage is a machine translation; no human translation review.
Date of Jiemian’s first report; not a start date.
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported Rests on reporting
Qualification and date notes
The record rests on reporting in a background paragraph that gives no source; no ByteDance announcement was retrieved. The report’s term “一号位” (top position) is informal and is not a title. English rendering of the Chinese passage is a machine translation; no human translation review.
Month as reported; no announcement date or end.
2026Record year · 1 claims
Record about this institution · Stated in source · Supported
Qualification and date notes
A recruitment announcement; it names no head and gives no formation date. Staffing, scope in practice and implementation are not established. English rendering of the Chinese passage is a machine translation; no human translation review.
Announcement date; the post says only “近日” (recently) for the formation.