Summary

  • Chinese tech giant Bytedance, owner of social media phenomenon TikTok, has released an open source artificial intelligence (AI) software called Seed-OSS-36B.
  • The new LLMs were created to scale reasoning and task execution by the company’s Seed Team.
  • It introduced three variants, two of which were trained on synthetic data for either better performance or as a baseline for researcher experimentation.
  • The third, Instruct, is a model designed for task execution and instruction following.
  • All three variants can be used to develop commercial applications without fee, for API or licensing purposes.
  • The new options offer accessible AI with flexible deployment and strong performance for open-source offerings.

By Carl Franzen

Original Article