ByteDance releases Seed 2.0 foundation models, claims parity with GPT-5.2 on vision tasks
ByteDance launched Seed 2.0, its latest foundation model generation powering TikTok and Lark. Seed 2.0-VL matches GPT-5.2 and outperforms Gemini 3 on visual understanding. Seed-Thinking earned 2,073 Elo on Codeforces, beating o3 (2,050) and R1 (2,029).
A new Seed 2.0-Edit model handles image editing and generation within a single 20B-parameter model. ByteDance is now competing directly with OpenAI and Google on frontier AI research, not just consumer apps.
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