ByteDance's Doubao AI has significantly downsized its general conversation and post-training teams, with the Session team expected to shrink by approximately 50%. Staff are being transferred to commercialization units, Feishu, Horizon RL, and Product Posttrain-Work departments, while remaining employees face layoffs. The restructuring comes despite Doubao surpassing 200 million daily active users, as the conversation product encounters commercialization bottlenecks and high multimodal capability costs. Resources are now being redirected toward Doubao Pro enterprise edition, productivity features within Feishu, and e-commerce and lifestyle services. While conversation experience optimization has been deprioritized, the team continues pursuing model merging techniques to improve efficiency and reduce operational costs.