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Seed1.6
Developed by ByteDance
Modality: Multimodal
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Context: 256k
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API-only
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Overview
Seed1.6 is the latest general-purpose model series from the ByteDance Seed team, released June 25, 2025. It incorporates multimodal capabilities with a 256K context window, supporting adaptive deep thinking for complex reasoning tasks. Built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture, it is available through the Volcano Engine open API. ByteDance also offers specialized variants including Doubao-Seed-Code for professional code generation across 200+ programming languages.
Model Specifications
Provider:
ByteDance
Modality / Type:
Multimodal
Pricing Model:
API-only
Context Window:
256k
Release Date:
Jun 25, 2025
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