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Seed EdgeExploring the boundless edge of intelligence

The Seed Edge is a long-term research program launched by ByteDance Seed team, dedicated to establishing general intelligence. The program focuses on long-term research topics and pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence. We encourage cross-team and cross-modal collaboration. We also provide an open research environment, offer dedicated computing resources, and adopt a longer-term performance review cycle for our members.

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The Seed STEM Fellows Program invites 100 outstanding researchers from the forefront of scientific innovation to collaborate with the Seed team on real-world research challenges. Together, we aim to accelerate scientific discovery with AI and advance the frontier of AI intelligence.

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Research areas and topics

Reasoning ability research area icon

Exploring the boundaries of reasoning abilities

Researching intrinsic rewards and proactiveness in models, memory mechanisms, and online learning capabilities.

Perception ability research area icon

Exploring the boundaries of perception abilities

Studying how to scalably extract knowledge from massive, ultra-low signal-to-noise ratio multimodal data and unify multimodal generation and understanding.

Next-generation model design research area icon

Exploring next-generation model design integrating software and hardware

Exploring hardware-friendly model architectures and training methods and developing models with long-term memory and real-time interaction.

Intelligent agent capability research area icon

Exploring the capability boundaries of intelligent agents

Discovering how to take actions based on visual and speech inputs and utilize various tools in the process flexibly.

Latest release

EdgeBench: measuring real-world environment learning and discovering a new scaling law

Agents exhibit a clear log-sigmoid pattern in environment learning.

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Welcome to Seed Edge

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We welcome unconventional thinkers

  • Core focus

    Possess deep curiosity and a passion for fundamental research.

  • Grand vision

    Have top-tier research capabilities, dare to dream big, and pursue ambitious, high-impact AI challenges.

  • Long-term commitment

    Stay resilient and persistent amid short-term changes, and remain committed to long-term research.

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Open and long-term research environments

  • Lean, flat, and diverse research team

    Diverse research backgrounds, with small and flat research groups where you can easily propose new topics.

  • Commitment to long-term research

    Extended evaluation cycles with no OKRs or semi-annual reviews, focusing on long-term impact.

  • Independent and sufficient computing resources

    Ample computing resources allocated and managed per research project.

  • Encouragement of cross-modal collaboration

    We encourage cross-team and cross-modal communication and collaboration to promote the interconnection and integration of cross-modal knowledge.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out via : seededge@bytedance.com

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