ByteDance opened up stock options for "Bean Bag Shares" to its Seed employees this month? Insiders responded.

According to market news, ByteDance opened the subscription of low-priced stock options "Bean Stock" linked to the Seed team this month, with a price of $13 per share, and stated that this is the first time ByteDance has issued equity for a specific business unit, and this incentive mechanism will not dilute the performance benefits of other business lines of ByteDance. On May 27th, informed sources revealed to reporters that there is no "subscription" for Bean Stock, and related employees can choose to receive their year-end bonus in the form of Bean Stock. Seed is a large-scale R&D core team established by ByteDance in 2023, currently leading the research and development of Bean large-scale models, with research directions covering multi-modal large-scale models, embodied intelligence, etc.