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ByteDance’s Seed unit says its new Alignment & Preparedness team will receive computing capacity and research resources comparable to those available to its frontier-model teams, Rappler reports. That is a more concrete account of the planned investment than the hiring target alone.

Seed says the team will work on safety training throughout model development, automated vulnerability testing, tools to monitor and explain model behaviour, and test environments for AI agents. It also plans to prepare for emerging risks.

The unit says it will seek independent testing and work with universities and research institutions, applying its safety work across training, evaluation and deployment. The positions are based in Beijing, Shanghai and San Jose, California.

Those details come from Seed’s recruitment post on its official WeChat account, as reported by Rappler.

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• China’s ByteDance sets up AI safety team, launches global hiring drive – Rappler: Rappler reports that ByteDance’s Seed says its new Alignment & Preparedness team will receive resources comparable to frontier-model teams and work on safety training, vulnerability testing, monitoring tools, agent testing, and collaboration with external researchers.

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