ByteDance, founded in 2012, is on a mission to inspire creativity and enrich life through its diverse suite of products, including TikTok and various platforms tailored for the Chinese market. The company emphasizes the importance of creation, innovation, and teamwork in achieving its goals. The Doubao (Seed) Team, established in 2023, focuses on pioneering advanced AI foundation models, with research areas spanning deep learning, reinforcement learning, and AI safety. The Machine Learning (ML) System sub-team is dedicated to developing and maintaining distributed ML training and inference systems globally, ensuring high performance and reliability.