At a time when AI competition is heating up, ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming rarely speaks out. On August 6, a reporter from Surge News learned from ByteDance insiders that the rapid development of domestic competitors' open source models this year is putting more pressure on ByteDance. At a recent internal meeting, ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming said that modeling should adhere to long-term principles and delay satisfaction, rather than using other people's output to change the ranking for a moment. Since this year, competition for large domestic AI models has been extremely intense. A new model has been released almost every few days. Every time a new powerful open source model is released, the debate within ByteDance about distillation heats up. The reporter learned that Zhang Yiming rarely spoke at Seed team meetings, but this time he clearly stated that ByteDance “should be willing to sacrifice some of its short-term profits for long-term goals.” According to information, ByteDance strictly prohibits distillation of open source models, and even strengthens relevant restrictions internally through API testing, etc. Zhang Yiming believes that distillation will interfere with long-term technological breakthroughs in the true sense of the word.

At a time when AI competition is heating up, ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming rarely speaks out. On August 6, a reporter from Surge News learned from ByteDance insiders that the rapid development of domestic competitors' open source models this year is putting more pressure on ByteDance. At a recent internal meeting, ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming said that modeling should adhere to long-term principles and delay satisfaction, rather than using other people's output to change the ranking for a moment. Since this year, competition for large domestic AI models has been extremely intense. A new model has been released almost every few days. Every time a new powerful open source model is released, the debate within ByteDance about distillation heats up. The reporter learned that Zhang Yiming rarely spoke at Seed team meetings, but this time he clearly stated that ByteDance “should be willing to sacrifice some of its short-term profits for long-term goals.” According to information, ByteDance strictly prohibits distillation of open source models, and even strengthens relevant restrictions internally through API testing, etc. Zhang Yiming believes that distillation will interfere with long-term technological breakthroughs in the true sense of the word.