It is reported that Byte is exploring to enter the field of autonomous driving, and the Seed world model team is responsible for this

IT House reported on July 13 that according to 36 Krypton news, ByteDance is exploring entering the field of autonomous driving. This project is currently being handled by Zhou Chang’s world model team under Seed. Another source revealed that in terms of business direction, the autonomous driving scenarios that Byte intends to lay out include unmanned logistics. This business belongs to Byte's Volcano Engine Automotive Industry Line. Some people close to Byte said that the Byte team has previously conducted business discussions and exchanges with some leading autonomous driving teams. At present, Byte's autonomous driving project has entered an early stage of preparation. Byte has sent invitations to many head-assisted driving or autonomous driving talents, and some technical talents who are optimistic about Byte's layout also plan to join. In response to the above news, Byte responded to the media: "There are many early research and explorations in the cutting-edge exploration fields of Byte's large model, including the field of physical AI, but there are no plans to do intelligent driving business." IT House inquired about ByteDance's official website and learned that ByteDance's Seed team was established in 2023 and is committed to finding new methods of general intelligence and pursuing the upper limit of intelligence. The team's research directions cover LLM, speech, vision, world model, infrastructure, AI Infra, next-generation AI interaction, etc.