ByteDance Hires Key Google AI Expert Amid Video Generation Arms Race
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Jiang Lu, a key Google VideoPoet contributor, has joined ByteDance's intelligent creation team. This comes amid a generative AI race between Big Tech companies.
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Jiang has expertise in video generation and deep learning, having worked at Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and as a professor.
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His hiring signals ByteDance allocating more resources to competing with the recent release of OpenAI's impressive Sora text-to-video model.
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While ByteDance has video generation technologies like PixelDance and Boximator, they lag behind Sora's capabilities significantly.
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ByteDance's CEO previously criticized employees for being slow to react to new generative AI releases like ChatGPT, indicating an urgency around these technologies.