Recently, rumors have been circulating in the market suggesting that Gu Quanquan, a former member of ByteDance's Seed team, has left to embark on his own entrepreneurial venture. Certain sources have alleged that he previously held the position of leader in AI-driven drug development and large language model (LLM) pre-training operations within the Seed team. In response to these claims, sources associated with ByteDance Seed clarified that while Gu Quanquan was indeed involved in tasks related to biomolecular structure prediction and LLM pre-training, he did not serve as the head of the AI-driven drug development and pre-training operations. Furthermore, they stated that they were not privy to the specifics of his new business endeavors.
