A former ByteDance intern who was allegedly dismissed for professional misconduct, including sabotaging colleagues’ work, was announced as a winner of one of the most prestigious annual awards for AI research this week. Keyu Tian, whose LinkedIn and Google Scholar pages list him as a master’s student in computer science at Peking University, is the first author of one of …
OpenAI has temporarily suspended ByteDance's account after it was revealed that the TikTok parent was building its own large language model using the ChatGPT-maker's technology. The Verge reported that ByteDance deployed OpenAI's API on ‘Project Seed,' the China-based tech giant's foundational LLM; the API was used at nearly every single phase of the project, including for training and evaluating the …
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has reportedly scrapped the development of Pico 5, the next virtual reality headset from Pico, a VR startup acquired by it in August 2021. According to The Information, which broke the story, the tech giant took this decision due to ‘disappointing’ sales of Pico 4, the startup's current headset. ‘Pico’s growth not as rapid …
