ByteDance Seedance 2.0: TikTok on Steroids

On February 12, 2026, ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.0, a video generation model that instantly went viral in China. The video quality is compared to the best Western counterparts, confirming China's leadership in multimodal AI.

This is the "second DeepSeek moment" for the industry. ByteDance uses its massive video content base for training, creating a closed ecosystem: from generation to consumption in TikTok. Competition for viewer attention is moving to the level of reality-creation algorithms.

Source: Reuters