ByteDance plans to launch a Muse AI-like assistant within a few weeks

According to Bloomberg, ByteDance plans to launch an AI assistant similar to Meta Muse in the coming weeks to expand its advantages in the AI video generation field and narrow the gap with leading laboratories in the United States. Co-founder Zhang Yiming recently introduced the related plans at an all-hands meeting of the AI team, aiming to reach a competitive capability at the highest level with companies like Anthropic and OpenAI by 2029 or 2030.

Zhang Yiming listed data as a top priority, stating that the training dataset used by the Seed language model is significantly smaller than that of internationally leading competitors. The new assistant will complement the Seedance video generation model series, with related plans including a maximum expenditure of $70 billion. The Seed team consists of about 1,000 researchers and engineers, led by Wu Yonghui, who joined from Google DeepMind in 2025; the team established an independent safety and alignment department in October, hiring about 10 experts.