February 9, 2026Model Release

Seedance 2.0

ByteDance

ByteDance's unified multimodal architecture accepts text, image, audio, and video as inputs. Up to 15-second clips at 2K resolution with extreme character consistency and audio-visual beat matching. For creators, the multimodal input is the breakthrough: feed the model a reference image, a voice clip, and a text description simultaneously, and it synthesizes all three into coherent video. Then copyright disputes from major studios pause the global rollout, raising questions about the training data behind the magic.

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Last updated October 2, 2026