[Zhang Yiming: ByteDance AI Will Catch Up with OpenAI and Anthropic by 2029 or 2030 at the Earliest] According to Jinse Finance, on November 12th, multiple sources familiar with the matter revealed that ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming recently discussed the company's AI business again in an internal sharing session. It is understood that Zhang Yiming stated at a recent all-hands meeting with the AI team that ByteDance has the capability to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic, but truly catching up with cutting-edge technologies "would take until 2029 or 2030 at the earliest." ByteDance's large-scale models aim to be comparable to the international top tier. Zhang Yiming frankly admitted that compared to top overseas AI companies, the pre-training dataset size of ByteDance's Seed series models is still smaller, which is the most pressing issue for ByteDance AI at present.