On the morning of February 13, ByteDance held a new staff meeting. ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo, CFO Gao Zhun, HR Director Hua Wei, E-commerce Director Kang Zeyu, AI Director Zhu Wenjia, and TikTok CEO Zhou Shouzi attended the meeting to communicate with employees. Regarding the AI business, ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo proposed key goals for 2025 at the meeting, including pursuing the upper limit of "intelligence", exploring new interactions, and strengthening scale effects. Liang Rubo said that the long-chain thinking model, one of the innovations of DeepSeek R1, is not the first in the industry. After OpenAI released the long-chain thinking model in September last year and it became a hot topic in the industry, ByteDance realized the major changes in technology, but the follow-up speed was not fast enough. If it had paid attention to it in time, it would have had the opportunity to achieve it earlier.