Tool tag: ByteDance

Dola (formerly Cici)

ByteDance's overseas AI assistant, renamed from Cici in November 2025. Free chat, translation and image generation, region-locked out of the US and China.

Seedance 2.5

ByteDance Seed video model, launched July 31, 2026: 30-second audio-video in one pass and 50 reference inputs. No technical report or rate card yet.

Seed 2.1 (Doubao)

ByteDance's flagship Seed 2.1: Pro for deep-thinking agent work, Turbo for scale, plus the weekly-updated Doubao-Seed-Evolving. Closed weights.

Doubao Seed 2.0 Code

ByteDance's dedicated coding model, released February 14, 2026 with the Seed 2.0 family. Combines programming and reasoning with multimodal perception.

Seedream 5.0

ByteDance's unified multimodal image model. Seedream 5.0 Lite (Feb 13, 2026) added deep thinking and web search grounding; a Pro tier followed in June 2026.

Seed1.5-VL

ByteDance Seed's standalone vision-language model: a 532M vision encoder with a 20B active-parameter MoE, top results on 38 of 60 public VLM benchmarks.