ByteDance reorganizes the Seed Robotics team under Zhou Chang.

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ByteDance has restructured its Seed Robotics team under multimodal leader Zhou Chang as part of the MetaEra strategy. Previously led by Li Hang, the team now reports to Zhou, who has assumed expanded responsibilities including oversight of Seedream and Seedance. The company is hiring an L8 leader at the level of top altcoin news expertise for embodied intelligence, aiming to consolidate robotics R&D and strengthen the connection between multimodal interaction and real-world asset (RWA) applications. Previously, hardware, data, and model development were fragmented, leading to redundant efforts. Now, robotics will support large model deployment and generate real-world data. Li Hang now serves as a consultant under Jin Xiaowei. OpenAI’s Sam Altman has also announced new hires in robotics for infrastructure and personal assistant initiatives.
ME AI news, according to monitoring by Beating, ByteDance’s multimodal lead, Zhou Chang, has recently expanded his scope of management: the Seed Robotics team, previously under Li Hang, has been reporting to Zhou Chang for over a month. Meanwhile, ByteDance is recruiting an Embodied Intelligence Technical Lead to oversee the overall planning of its robotics business, offering an L8 level equivalent to Alibaba’s P10–P11, targeting technical leaders from top-tier embodied intelligence startups. The integration of ByteDance’s Robotics team signals a move toward centralized management of robotics R&D resources. Combining multimodal interaction, world models, and embodied intelligence enables deeper reuse of technical requirements and data resources. Previously, hardware, data, and model development for robotics were handled by separate teams, leading to overlapping efforts in algorithm research. After the reorganization, robotics will serve as the physical embodiment of large models, providing real-world interaction data from environments such as warehouses, factories, and homes for multimodal models. As the core lead of Seed, Zhou Chang’s responsibilities have expanded multiple times since joining ByteDance from Alibaba’s Damo Academy in 2024. Beyond multimodal interaction and world models, Zhou has also taken over visual generation businesses—including the text-to-image model Seedream and the text-to-video model Seedance—following the departure of visual foundation model lead Feng Jianshi and the leave of absence of visual multimodal generation lead Yang Jianchao. The Robotics team now under Zhou’s management was formerly ByteDance’s AI Lab robotics team, which was integrated into the Seed system in 2025. The former lead, Li Hang, now reports to Jin Xiaowei, head of academic partnerships, in an advisory capacity focused on academic collaboration. In addition to ByteDance’s efforts to build a closed-loop technology ecosystem, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on June 1 that OpenAI’s robotics team is hiring full-stack hardware, operations, systems, and machine learning engineers with the goal of building socially useful robots through programming and manufacturing—progressing from short-term infrastructure development toward the long-term vision of personal assistants. (Source: MLion)
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