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ByteDance Seed

Doubao models; China volume leader.

HQ
Beijing
Web
seed.bytedance.com
Camps
LLM scaling

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What it does

Seed is ByteDance's model group. Its Doubao models are the volume leader in China and among the cheapest capable models anywhere, sold mostly as an API rather than open weights.

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    Doubao / Seed models: volume leader in China, mostly API not open weights.
    Sources China's open-weight takeover Wing Venture Capital 2026-05-01

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General sources

China's open-weight takeover Wing Venture Capital 2026-05-01