ByteDance's Seed AI lab has set up a standalone "Seed Model-Alignment & Preparedness" department led by Yan Lin and reporting directly to Seed head Wu Yonghui, with the former Responsible AI team and some Chat team members moving into it, according to Chinese media citing an internal email. Seed then posted a global recruitment notice seeking 10 researchers for Beijing, Shanghai and San Jose, saying the team will get computing and research resources comparable to frontier model research teams and will work on agent-model safety, automated vulnerability testing, tools to monitor and explain model behavior, and preparedness for frontier risks including CBRN. Reports citing Pengpai describe it as the first standalone safety and alignment department at a Chinese frontier AI lab; that "first" claim has not been independently verified in the supplied material.