# Yiming Zhang (slim)

> Yiming Zhang is co-founder of ByteDance. Seedance on BytePlus ModelArk and Seedream on BytePlus ModelArk on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder, ByteDance.

Yiming Zhang co-founded ByteDance, the owner of BytePlus, with Rubo Liang in 2012. ByteDance launched its news app Toutiao that year, Douyin in 2016 and TikTok about a year after that.

## What Yiming builds

- [Seedance on BytePlus ModelArk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/seedance-on-byteplus-modelark.md), graded C, 59.5/100, in Video generation. Seedance is ByteDance's family of video generation models, sold through the BytePlus ModelArk API. An agent creates an asynchronous task from text, images, video or audio and collects an MP4 by polling or callback. Co-founder, ByteDance, researched 2026-10-28.
- [Seedream on BytePlus ModelArk](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/seedream-on-byteplus-modelark.md), graded D, 53.9/100, in Image generation. BytePlus ModelArk's hosted API for ByteDance's Seedream image models. One endpoint handles text-to-image, reference-image editing, batches of related images and layer decomposition, billed per generated image. Co-founder, ByteDance, researched 2026-10-28.

## Works with

- [Rubo Liang](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/rubo-liang/), Co-founder and Chairman of the Board, ByteDance

## Questions

### Who is Yiming Zhang?

Yiming Zhang co-founded ByteDance, the owner of BytePlus, with Rubo Liang in 2012. ByteDance launched its news app Toutiao that year, Douyin in 2016 and TikTok about a year after that.

### What does BytePlus, BytePlus Pte. Ltd. (ByteDance) make?

Anchor Terminal lists Seedance on BytePlus ModelArk and Seedream on BytePlus ModelArk from BytePlus, BytePlus Pte.

### How are Yiming's tools graded?

Seedance on BytePlus ModelArk is graded C, 59.5 out of 100; Seedream on BytePlus ModelArk is graded D, 53.9 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.byteplus.com/en
- https://www.byteplus.com/en/about-us
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.