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A former ByteDance intern was accused of tampering with code and disrupting other researchersâ model-training jobs to grab more GPU resources. ByteDance reportedly sought over $1 million in damages, and the legal dispute is said to be ongoing.
Yet amid the controversy, a paper he co-authored won a Best Paper Award at NeurIPS 2024.
Now heâs reportedly launching a world-model startup. No official company name. No product yet. But it has already raised $30 million at a nearly $200 million post-money valuation.
A former ByteDance intern was accused of tampering with code and disrupting other researchersâ model-training jobs to grab more GPU resources. ByteDance reportedly sought over $1 million in damages, and the legal dispute is said to be ongoing.
Yet amid the controversy, a paper he co-authored won a Best Paper Award at NeurIPS 2024.
Now heâs reportedly launching a world-model startup. No official company name. No product yet. But it has already raised $30 million at a nearly $200 million post-money valuation.