Zhang Yiming personally oversees world model: ByteDance won't build robots, aims to be physical AI's "data nanny"

ByteDance has chosen to enter the embodied intelligence track with an infrastructure positioning, not building robot bodies but instead laying out physical AI data supply. Zhang Yiming is personally supervising a real-time spatial video generation large model, expected to launch as early as October, used to generate simulated visual data that conforms to physical laws; Seed Robotics, originally led by Li Hang, has been merged into Zhou Chang's management scope, combined with multimodal interaction and world models to achieve a technical closed loop and data reuse.