["Venture Capital Queen" Xu Xin: Zhang Yiming Spends 50% of His Time on ByteDance's Seed] According to monitoring by Dongcha Beating, Xu Xin, the founder of Capital Today, mentioned on the podcast *High Energy* that ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming dedicates 50% of his time to Seed. At the time, she was advising another guest, Xinghaitu CEO Gao Jiyang, to reduce daily management tasks and focus more on model development. Xu Xin stated that while Douyin is already a massive business, Zhang Yiming still spends half of his time on Seed. Seed is ByteDance's AI research team established in 2023, focusing on areas such as large language models, speech, vision, world models, and AI infrastructure. It has already provided model capabilities for products like Doubao, Kouzi, and Jimeng. [Original Link]