Following the departure of Zhou Chang, the core head of ByteDance Seed, the entire video generation business has reportedly been largely taken over by Zeng Yan, a young woman born in 1997. She joined ByteDance through campus recruitment in 2021, becoming one of the fastest-rising employees within the company. She holds a bachelor's degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University and a master's degree from Montreal, and was a core leader of the renowned Seedance 2.0. She has no prior background, is at level 4-2, equivalent to an Alibaba P11.