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Why ByteDance Seed Refuses to Distill Anyone Else's Model

Summary by Pandaily
Zhang Yiming, founder of ByteDance, walked into a Seed all-hands meeting a month ago and ended a two-year internal debate. ByteDance will not use other people's models to accelerate its own LLMs, he said. Not closed-source frontier models, and not open-weight ones either.The rule dates to 2023. Seed's early team had run experiments using GPT API outputs as training data. After ByteDance introduced GPT API call audits in April 2023, the team wrot…
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Pandaily broke the news on Thursday, August 6, 2026.
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