ByteDance Integrates Lark Teams into Doubao AI and Cloud Units for AI Focus
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ByteDance is reorganizing its office tool Lark (Feishu) by integrating its product team into the Doubao AI chatbot unit and merging sales, marketing, customer services, development, and infrastructure teams into its Volcano Engine cloud and Flow AI application divisions, aiming to enhance AI product competitiveness and customer service capabilities.
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Why It Matters
ByteDance, a Beijing-based company, is reorganizing its internal teams to build stronger AI product competitiveness and customer service capabilities.
The Beijing-based company decided to integrate the product team of office tool Lark, known as Feishu domestically, into the product team in charge of the Doubao AI chatbot, according to an internal memo seen by the South China Morning Post on Thursday.
The new bigger section would be led by Zhao Qi, who previously oversaw Doubao only, while David Xie Xin, the CEO of the Lark unit, would report to Zhao, the memo said.
Meanwhile, Lark’s sales, marketing and customer services personnel would merge with a team under the cloud unit Volcano Engine, establishing a new department responsible for sales and customer service for the firm’s model-as-a-service and software-as-a-service offerings, as well as other cloud services, according to the memo.
Tan Dai, the president of Volcano Engine, would take over the new team, the memo said.
Similarly, Lark’s development and infrastructure team would be merged into Flow, a division that focuses on AI applications.
ByteDance said the moves aimed to build “stronger AI product competitiveness and customer service capabilities”.
Open Questions
- What specific new AI products will result from this integration?
- What is the timeline for these organizational changes?
- How will this impact Lark's existing user base?
