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

ByteDance’s website listed more than 320 GenAI-related job openings as of Tuesday, up from 307 vacancies posted a month earlier. A specific search for jobs in AI large language models returned 130 available positions, compared to 107 found in February. — SCMP

Social media giant ByteDance, owner of popular short video apps TikTok and Douyin, is accelerating efforts in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) via increased talent recruitment and release of new tools in a field where OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Sora are the technology’s benchmarks.

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.