After Zhou Chang, the core lead of ByteDance Seed, left, the entire video-generation business was reportedly taken over to a greater extent by Zeng Yan, a woman born in 1997.

She joined ByteDance through campus recruitment in 2021 and became one of the company’s fastest-promoted employees. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Xi’an Jiaotong University and her master’s degree in Montreal, and is a well-known core lead for Seedance 2.0.

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