ByteDance hiring nearly 100 AI roles in US to compete with American firms

ByteDance is hiring for nearly 100 open roles within its AI division Seed in the US, established in 2023 with labs across the US, Singapore, and China. Roles include producing international data for LLMs, advancing text/image/video generation, developing human-like AI, and building science models for drug discovery. The hiring push comes despite years of national security concerns from US lawmakers about the TikTok parent company. ByteDance is competing directly with US-based AI labs for talent in a tight market.

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