TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew: AI will bring major scientific breakthroughs within three years

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew said AI will bring scientific breakthroughs in physics, biotechnology, chemistry, and materials science within the next two to three years. He also raised the issue of model alignment, warning that users may grant AI agents extensive permissions without understanding the consequences, and that improvements in model capabilities are lowering the cost for malicious actors to create safety problems. ByteDance's Seed team released Protenix-v2 in April, focusing on biomolecular structure prediction and design.