Seed1.6
Introduced adaptive reasoning on a 230B MoE foundation unifying text and vision.
FAMILY / BYTEDANCE SEED
Seed
ByteDance’s multimodal foundation and agent line behind Doubao and production services.
- First model
- 2025
- Models
- 4
- Latest
- Seed2.1
01 / LINEAGE MAP
Model lineage
predecessor derived from
02 / GENERATIONS
What changed
Seed1.8
A general agent model for search, code, GUI interaction, and complex workflows.
Seed2.0
Systematically improved multimodal understanding, foundation reasoning, and production agent performance.
Seed2.1
The current Seed line, improving long-running general agents, end-to-end coding, and scientific workflows.