ByteDance Research has open-sourced Lance, a 3B-parameter unified multimodal model that handles image and video generation, editing, and understanding in a single framework. It achieves top-tier benchmark scores, matching or outperforming models twice its size.
Why it matters: China is moving from AI-labeling rules on paper to named enforcement. Reuters says regulators singled out three ByteDance properties and tied the warning to content-label rules first issued in March 2025 and effective since September.
A Seedance 2.0 demo showing a plane transforming into a massive robot with cinematic quality has gone viral on Reddit with over 2,675 upvotes, generated from a detailed single prompt on the first attempt.
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 has arrived seemingly out of nowhere, generating hyperrealistic AI videos that have Hollywood insiders deeply concerned. The model creates footage indistinguishable from real camera recordings using a single text prompt.
ByteDance released Doubao 2.0 ahead of Lunar New Year, claiming GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3 Pro parity with 98.3 on AIME 2025, a 3020 Codeforces rating, and pricing 10x cheaper than Western rivals.
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 accepts text, images, video clips, and audio simultaneously to generate up to 20-second 1080p video, drawing immediate copyright cease-and-desist letters from Disney and Paramount within days of launch.
ByteDance officially launched Seedance 2.0, its AI video generation model. Game Science's CEO called it 'the strongest video-generation model on the planet,' while strict real-person content restrictions were implemented.