Social media giant ByteDance on Wednesday released a new artificial intelligence model that looks to challenge those from DeepSeek and Alibaba Cloud in the global market for open-source AI systems. TikTok and Douyin owner ByteDance’s Seed department, which oversees the tech unicorn’s AI research and large language model (LLM) development, has uploaded three variants of its Seed-OSS-36B open-source AI model to Hugging Face, the world’s largest open-source AI developer platform. Seed-OSS-36B was...