[Seedance core R&D head Zhou Chang was revealed to have resigned? Sources close to Byte deny] October 26th, it was recently reported that Zhou Chang, one of the core leaders of Byte's Seed AI R&D, has proposed to resign. According to sources, Zhou Chang will start a business, or it may be related to embodied intelligence, and has been actively contacted by well-known funds, major manufacturers' strategic investors, and leading large model unicorns. On October 26, people close to Byte responded to reporters that Zhou Chang had not resigned. Public information shows that Zhou Chang graduated from Fudan University in 2012 with a bachelor's degree in computer science and technology, then entered Peking University and received a doctorate in computer software and theory in 2017. His research interests during his PhD include deep learning, graph mining and distributed computing. (The Paper)