ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has told the company's Seed AI team not to use model distillation as a shortcut for large-language-model gains, accepting the risk that ByteDance may trail Chinese rivals while the industry fights over model copying. The Seed team stance turns a technical training method into a strategic line: near-term benchmark progress versus cleaner provenance and lower U.S. political exposure.
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