ByteDance
ByteDance was founded in 2012 by Yiming Zhang and Rubo Liang. Liang is its current chairman and CEO. The company develops the Seed model families and distributes AI through consumer products, Volcano Engine and BytePlus.
Models & tools
- Seed 2.0 Lite
ByteDance · Seed 2.0
Multimodal model that combines native audio understanding with image, video and text input.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seedream 5.0 Flash
ByteDance · Seedream
Lower-latency image model with reference generation, marked-up editing and layer decomposition.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seed 2.1 Turbo
ByteDance · Seed 2.1
Seed 2.1 model for agent workflows and multimodal understanding.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seed 2.0 Mini
ByteDance · Seed 2.0
Compact multimodal model designed for high request volumes, batch generation and dense deployment.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seedream 4.5
ByteDance · Seedream
Image model for multi-image editing, consistent references and dense text rendering.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seedream 5.0 Pro
ByteDance · Seedream
Image generation and editing model for text-rich graphics, marked-up edits and layer separation.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seedream 5.0 Lite
ByteDance · Seedream
Image model with visual reasoning and search-enhanced generation.
Launch date API - UI-TARS 1.5 7B
ByteDance · UI-TARS
UI-TARS 1.5 is a downloadable vision-language agent for screen-based tasks.
Launch date not confirmedDownloadable - Seed 2.0 Code Preview
ByteDance · Seed 2.0
Dedicated programming model in the Seed 2.0 family.
Launch date not confirmedPreviewAPI - Seed Audio 1.0
ByteDance · Seed Audio
Speech, sound-effect and ambient-audio generator combining language-based control with acoustic diffusion.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seedance 2.0
ByteDance · Seedance
Video model for generation, editing and extension with text, image, video and audio references.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seedance 2.0 Fast
ByteDance · Seedance
Faster Seedance 2.0 video variant with reference inputs and editing controls.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seedance 2.0 Mini
ByteDance · Seedance
Cost-focused video model for generation, editing and extension in the Seedance 2.0 family.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seedance 2.5
ByteDance · Seedance
Joint audio and video model that generates up to 30 seconds per request and can continue an existing video.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seed 2.0 Pro
ByteDance · Seed 2.0
General-purpose model for extended reasoning and complex visual workflows.
Launch date API - Seed LiveInterpret 2.0
ByteDance · Seed LiveInterpret
End-to-end speech interpretation model for Chinese and English.
Launch date API - BAGEL 7B MoT
ByteDance · BAGEL
BAGEL unifies text and image understanding, image generation and image editing.
Launch date not confirmedDownloadable - BFS-Prover V2 32B
ByteDance · BFS-Prover
BFS-Prover V2 32B generates Lean 4 proof tactics from a formal tactic state.
Launch date not confirmedDownloadable - BFS-Prover V2 7B
ByteDance · BFS-Prover
BFS-Prover V2 7B is the smaller Lean 4 tactic generator in the V2 release.
Launch date not confirmedDownloadable - Doubao Embedding Vision
ByteDance · Doubao Embedding
Multimodal embedding model for mixed text, image and video inputs, with dense and multi-vector output.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seed 2.1 Lite
ByteDance · Seed 2.1
Multimodal Seed 2.1 model with a separate System One interface for fixed-choice probabilities and scores.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seed 2.1 Pro
ByteDance · Seed 2.1
Multimodal agent model for office tasks, software engineering, planning and file processing.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seed ASR 1.0
ByteDance · Seed Speech
First-generation Seed speech recognizer with audio-file and legacy bidirectional streaming interfaces.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seed ASR 2.0
ByteDance · Seed Speech
Speech recognition model with batch transcription for recordings shorter than five hours.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seed Character
ByteDance · Seed Character
Character dialogue model with reasoning and visual input in its June release.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seed Evolving
ByteDance · Seed
Rolling agent and coding model endpoint whose underlying release changes without changing its API identifier.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seed Translation
ByteDance · Seed Translation
Dedicated translation model for short text through Volcano Engine.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seed TTS 1.0
ByteDance · Seed Speech
First-generation Seed speech synthesis model available through the current synthesis API.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seed TTS 2.0
ByteDance · Seed Speech
Context-aware speech synthesis model with text controls for tone, emotion and pace.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seed Voice Replication 1.0
ByteDance · Seed Speech
First-generation voice replication model retained in the BytePlus synthesis API.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seed Voice Replication 2.0
ByteDance · Seed Speech
Voice replication model that learns a reusable voice profile from a short single-speaker recording.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seed-Coder 8B Base
ByteDance · Seed-Coder
Seed-Coder 8B Base supports code completion and fill-in-the-middle generation.
Launch date not confirmedDownloadable - Seed-Coder 8B Instruct
ByteDance · Seed-Coder
Seed-Coder 8B Instruct adapts the base coding model to follow user requests.
Launch date not confirmedDownloadable - Seed-Coder 8B Reasoning
ByteDance · Seed-Coder
Seed-Coder 8B Reasoning uses reinforcement learning for harder programming problems.
Launch date not confirmedDownloadable - Seed-OSS 36B Base
ByteDance · Seed-OSS
Seed-OSS 36B Base is the pretrained checkpoint that includes synthetic instruction data.
Launch date not confirmedDownloadable - Seed-OSS 36B Base woSyn
ByteDance · Seed-OSS
Seed-OSS Base woSyn omits the synthetic instruction data used in the other 36B base release.
Launch date not confirmedDownloadable - Seed-OSS 36B Instruct
ByteDance · Seed-OSS
Seed-OSS 36B Instruct is a downloadable language model with a controllable reasoning budget.
Launch date not confirmedDownloadable - Seed-X Instruct 7B
ByteDance · Seed-X
Seed-X Instruct 7B is the instruction-tuned translation checkpoint in the Seed-X family.
Launch date not confirmedDownloadable - Seed-X PPO 7B
ByteDance · Seed-X
Seed-X PPO 7B is a translation model for 28 languages, trained with reinforcement learning.
Launch date not confirmedDownloadable - Seed-X RM 7B
ByteDance · Seed-X
Seed-X RM 7B scores translation quality using a model trained on human preferences.
Launch date not confirmedDownloadable - Seed3D 2.0
ByteDance · Seed3D
Image-to-3D model that generates asset files containing geometry and materials.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seedance 1.0 Pro
ByteDance · Seedance
Text-to-video and image-to-video model with native multi-shot generation up to 1080p.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Seedance 1.0 Pro Fast
ByteDance · Seedance
Faster Seedance 1.0 variant for video generation from text or a starting frame.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - SeedRealtime
ByteDance · SeedRealtime
Real-time conversation model combining text, audio and visual input.
Launch date not confirmedProvider product - Seedream 4.0
ByteDance · Seedream
Unified image generation and editing model that accepts multiple references and returns several images.
Launch date not confirmedAPI - Stable-DiffCoder 8B Base
ByteDance · Stable-DiffCoder
Stable-DiffCoder 8B Base is a masked-diffusion coding model derived from Seed-Coder.
Launch date not confirmedDownloadable - Stable-DiffCoder 8B Instruct
ByteDance · Stable-DiffCoder
Stable-DiffCoder 8B Instruct applies instruction tuning to the diffusion coding family.
Launch date not confirmedDownloadable