Byte is clearly determined to package multimodal capabilities, world models, and embodied intelligence into a closed loop—Zhou Chang’s “plate” just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

ByteDance's multimodal head Zhou Chang's management scope continues to expand, and the Seed Robotics team has reported to him. The company is recruiting embodied intelligence technology leaders at the L8 level, comparable to Alibaba's P10–P11, to oversee overall robot planning and strengthen resource integration. The collaboration of multimodal, world models, and embodied intelligence helps with resource and data reuse. Meanwhile, OpenAI announced that its robotics team will recruit full-stack hardware, operations, systems, and machine learning engineers to promote practical robot deployment.