ByteDance attracts talent with high salaries, former Alibaba technical director Zhou Chang joins

It is reported that ByteDance successfully attracted Zhou Chang, the former technical director of Ali Tongyi's big model, with an eight-digit annual salary. More than a dozen people in Zhou Chang's team also jumped to ByteDance. ByteDance offered Zhou Chang a position equivalent to Ali's P10 and P9 levels. In October of this year, Zhou Chang joined ByteDance in a low-key manner. On November 13, news that Alibaba applied for arbitration for Zhou Chang's violation of the non-compete agreement spread in the industry. People familiar with the matter confirmed the authenticity of the news. Zhou Chang worked at Ali, responsible for designing and implementing the ultra-large-scale multimodal pre-training model M6, achieving breakthroughs in the number of parameters and low-carbon training mode. In July of this year, Zhou Chang left Ali.