In the second half of 2024, there were rumors in the market that ByteDance was planning to build a "Big Model Research Institute". Subsequently, ByteDance responded: "There is a long-term plan to strengthen research related to big models, but it has not decided to establish an independent organization." We learned that recently, ByteDance's AGI research team finally surfaced: In late January, ByteDance officially established a research project code-named "Seed Edge". The core goal is to do AGI frontier research that is longer-term and more basic than pre-training and big model iteration. Seed Edge has formulated five major research directions. AI is the technology and business direction that ByteDance currently values most. People close to ByteDance told us that ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming attaches great importance to and emphasizes strengthening investment in AI research. He will read papers and key technical details himself, chat and communicate with first-class AI researchers, and encourage ByteDance AI research teams to explore and study basic topics. It is understood that ByteDance has been planning to establish a research organization for a long time. But after forming a feasible plan, it took only one week for internal communication and solicitation of opinions. People close to ByteDance said that in the face of AI changes: "ByteDance is the most daring of large Chinese companies to adjust, and it moves very quickly."