An index of frontier and emerging AI labs.
Frontier lab
ByteDance's foundation model research division (Seed) and consumer AI product unit, developer of the Doubao model family — China's most widely used AI assistant with over 200M monthly active users. Doubao-Seed-2.0 (February 2025) is its flagship reasoning model.
| Name | ByteDance AI (Doubao / Seed) |
|---|---|
| Aliases | Doubao, Seed |
| Space | Frontier lab |
| Founded | 2023 |
| Latest valuation | —(confirmed) |
| Stage | — |
| Status | active |
| HQ | Beijing |
| Founders | Liang Rubo, Zhu Wenjia |
| Website | https://doubao.com |
| Careers | https://jobs.bytedance.com |
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| X / Twitter | — |
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| Date | Type | Title | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-14 | added | ByteDance AI (Doubao / Seed) added to tracker | — |
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|---|---|---|
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