ByteDance Reportedly Forms New AI Data and Safety Department · TechNode

ByteDance Reportedly Forms New AI Data and Safety Department · TechNode

ByteDance has reportedly formed a new top-level department focused on AI data and safety, placing it alongside Seed, Flow and Douyin within the company’s organizational structure. The unit is led by Wang Yinglei, a former TikTok executive who oversaw platform responsibility and livestreaming. The department reportedly grew out of a global data team established in 2023. Its work spans data sourcing, synthetic-data generation, data cleaning, stand…

After Seed and Flow, ByteDance builds a new AI unit around data

36Kr has learned from multiple independent sources that ByteDance has established a new top-level business unit for artificial intelligence data and security. The unit is on the same organizational level as Seed, Flow, Douyin, and other major business units, and is led by Adam Wang. It is ByteDance’s latest top-level unit focused on AI, following the creation of Seed and Flow at the end of 2023. Before taking his current role, Wang was head of p…