ByteDance Launches Open-Source Model to Compete with AI Technologies from DeepSeek and Alibaba Cloud
TikTok
and
Douyin
owner ByteDance’s
Seed department
, which manages the AI research and large language model (LLM) initiatives of the tech giant, has published three variations of its Seed-OSS-36B open-source AI model on
Hugging Face
, the largest platform for open-source AI development globally.
Seed-OSS-36B was developed with general-use and reasoning capabilities, along with features that cater to developers, including long-context window processing, as stated by ByteDance.
With a size of 36 billion parameters—used for training to enhance its performance—Seed-OSS-36B delivers impressive capabilities, despite its modest scale. Other Chinese firms have released open-source AI models with parameters significantly larger in count.
and
OpenAI
, as well as its own Seed 1.6 model. Alibaba Cloud represents the AI and cloud service division of
Alibaba Group Holding
, the parent company of the South China Morning Post.
The introduction of Seed-OSS-36B AI by ByteDance highlights the ongoing efforts of Chinese AI firms to close the technological gap with their US counterparts through an open-source model, enabling third-party developers to utilize, adjust, and share the source code of AI frameworks.
