Z Finance reported that Zhou Chang, the core head of ByteDance Seed, has left to start a company and received support from a USD fund; multiple media outlets 4 days ago cited people close to ByteDance as saying that he had not left, so the reports remain contradictory.
Open-source developer Huang Fengda announces departure from Alibaba Qoder team. His departure occurred during a period when Qoder was continuously adjusting its product lines.
Zhou Chang was rumored to have submitted his resignation and to be preparing to pursue an embodied-intelligence venture, but October 26 people close to ByteDance denied the claim.
StarkWare Core member Abdel announced his departure and will devote most of his efforts to AI security research, while stating that he remains optimistic about Starknet and StarkWare。
Beating AI reported that ByteDance's commercialization GenAI R&D head Wen Shilei recently left; the two previous heads of this business line had already July departed, and the remaining members were reportedly reassigned.
The White House confirmed that Patrick Witt’s secondment to the White House Crypto Council had ended, and his term as executive director had consequently concluded.
ByteDance subsidiary TRAE Former head Shi Yang reportedly departs; said to be starting up with former ByteDance AI data and security head Fu Yue, focused on AI office work, with the project reportedly valued at approximately 200000000 USD。
Citing an OpenAI spokesperson, Beating reported that David Robinson, head of the Safety Systems Team, left last week; he had previously also been responsible for policy planning and transparency work such as model system cards.
Reports state that Alibaba has appointed Liu Dayiheng to lead the Qwen large language model, and the Apsara Conference official website has updated his title to “Head of the Qwen LLM Project.”