Why Is ByteDance Moving into Biology, Chemistry and Drug Discovery?

>“They could be doing large-scale hypothesis generation with all this data, and then they could be feeding that data into Chinese pharmaceutical companies or Chinese weapons manufacturers.” -Eric Perakslis, former chief scientist for informatics at the FDA

Meanwhile, tech giants have the same kind of employees. Does Eric Perakslis say the same about Google possibly feeding data to US military to make weapons?

They are just trying to see if they can come up with something big.