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Seed

ByteDance’s multimodal foundation and agent line behind Doubao and production services.

First model
2025
Models
4
Latest dated version
Seed2.1

01 / RELEASE SEQUENCE

Family release sequence

Compare versions →
  1. 2025-06-25Seed1.6Language · Reasoning
  2. 2025-12-18Seed1.8Reasoning · Coding
  3. 2026-02-14Seed2.0Reasoning · Coding
  4. 2026-06-23Seed2.1Reasoning · Coding
4 versions
What changed ↓

02 / GENERATIONS

What changed

01

Seed1.6

Introduced adaptive reasoning on a 230B MoE foundation unifying text and vision.

02

Seed1.8

A general agent model for search, code, GUI interaction, and complex workflows.

03

Seed2.0

Systematically improved multimodal understanding, foundation reasoning, and production agent performance.

04

Seed2.1

The current Seed line, improving long-running general agents, end-to-end coding, and scientific workflows.