About The Team: The mission of the TikTok Eng‑AI Innovation Center is to explore cutting‑edge AGI technologies, including but not limited to LLM, multi‑modal LLM (video/image/audio/text/code), etc., to let machine better understand user creations on TikTok platform. Regarding video/image/audio/text, enhanced content understanding can bring better user experience of searching, recommendation, and can more accurately identify and defend internet abuse and fraud on our platform. Regarding code, our developed LLM aims to automatically re‑organize/optimize TikTok codebase, and make the code/coding more accessible for TikTok engineers.

Multimodal foundation large models (VLM) represent a research hotspot in the industry and a critical technology for TikTok's business scenario applications. In 2024, TikTok's Innovation Center developed VFM V1, a multimodal large model tailored for TikTok's business scenarios. It matches the perf...