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TikTok owner ByteDance accelerates generative AI efforts with increased talent acquisition, release of new tools

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TikTok owner ByteDance accelerates generative AI efforts with increased talent acquisition, release of new tools

Beijing-based ByteDance’s website listed more than 320 GenAI-related job openings as of Tuesday, up from 307 vacancies posted a month earlier, according to a search conducted by the South China Morning Post. A specific search for jobs in the development of large language models (LLMs) – the technology used to train ChatGPT and similar GenAI … Read more

Former Google video generation expert joins TikTok owner ByteDance amid generative AI race

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Former Google video generation expert joins TikTok owner ByteDance amid generative AI race

A key contributor to Google’s VideoPoet video generation technology has joined TikTok owner ByteDance, as Big Tech companies on both sides of the Pacific race to advance generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools after OpenAI’s Sora stunned the world with its capabilities. Jiang Lu, based in San Jose, California, also an adjunct professor at the Carnegie … Read more