ByteDance

15 releases covered on ThursdAI · bytedance.com ↗

July 2026

ByteDance
New Models

Seedream 5.0 Pro

ByteDance releases Seedream 5.0 Pro with precision editing and layer separation

The flagship tier of the Seedream 5 line pitches a shift from image generator to design tool: interactive precision editing (point, lasso, sketch), intelligent layer separation that decomposes an image into editable layers, dense infographic rendering, and native text in 10+ languages. Rollout is enterprise-first via the BytePlus API, Dreamina and Magnific, with Seedance 2.5 video pre-announced for roughly ten days later.

4K Max native resolution10+ Languages for native text
X announcement ↗Blog ↗
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April 2026

ByteDance
New Models

Seedance 2.0

Seedance 2.0 launches in the US on Replicate

ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 video model became available stateside via Replicate, supporting up to 9 reference images, 3 videos, and 3 audio files per cinematic generation. Peter Gostev confirmed it sits ~80 ELO points above the next video model on Arena, a massive gap in a leaderboard where models usually cluster within 10 points.

Replicate announcement on X ↗Seedance announcement ↗
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February 2026

ByteDance
New Models

Seed 2.0

ByteDance Seed 2.0: frontier multimodal family at 73-84% lower pricing

ByteDance released Seed 2.0, a frontier multimodal LLM family with Pro, Lite, Mini, and Code variants that rivals GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.5 at 73-84% lower pricing. Its video understanding surpasses the human benchmark at 77% vs 73%. At 84% cheaper than Opus 4.5 with near-comparable quality, the panel called it a compelling option for price-conscious developers.

Seed 2.0 announcement (X) ↗Doubao team model page ↗ByteDance-Seed on Hugging Face ↗
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ByteDance
New Models

Seedance 2.0

ByteDance Seedance 2.0 shatters video generation reality

ByteDance launched Seedance 2.0, a unified multimodal video generation model that accepts up to 9 images, 3 videos, and 3 audio clips as references and produces 15-second multi-shot clips with native stereo audio and strong character consistency (a 45-second internal test mode also exists). The panel compared the quality jump to seeing Sora for the first time. Available on the BytePlus platform.

Alex's demo thread on X ↗Official launch blog ↗Seedance 2.0 announcement page ↗Seedance 2.0 in CapCut on X ↗
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#video-gen#multimodal#consumer-ai

December 2025

September 2025

ByteDance / Tsinghua
New ModelsOpen weights

HuMo

HuMo: human-centric multimodal video generation from ByteDance/Tsinghua

ByteDance research and Tsinghua released HuMo, a human-centric video generation model that conditions on multimodal inputs (text, image, and audio) to produce videos of people. The weights are available on Hugging Face.

X ↗HF ↗
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#video-gen#open-source

May 2025

April 2025

ByteDance
Products & Apps

OmniHuman (via Dreamina)

ByteDance's OmniHuman image-to-avatar model goes public via Dreamina

ByteDance's impressive OmniHuman model, which turns a single image plus audio into a realistic talking avatar video, became publicly usable through the Dreamina (CapCut) website. The results land squarely in uncanny-valley territory, as Alex demonstrated with his own avatar thread.

OmniHuman on Dreamina ↗Example thread by Alex ↗
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#video-gen

March 2025

ByteDance
New Models

Seedream 2.0

ByteDance unveils Seedream 2.0 bilingual image generation foundation model

ByteDance released Seedream 2.0, a native Chinese-English bilingual image generation foundation model, alongside a technical paper. It emphasizes excellent text rendering (especially Chinese), cultural nuance, and human preference alignment, generating high-quality, culturally relevant images from prompts in either language.

Blog ↗Paper ↗
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January 2025

ByteDance
Dev Tools

Trae

ByteDance launches Trae, an AI IDE competing with Cursor

ByteDance launched Trae, an AI-powered code editor positioned as a Cursor competitor. It is ByteDance's second shipping move of the week alongside the UI-TARS computer-use models.

Trae AI ↗
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#coding