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ByteDance Seed
ByteDance's foundation model team (Doubao, Seed models).
| Type | Frontier labs |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2023 |
| Headquarters | Beijing, China |
| Part of | ByteDance |
| Website | seed.bytedance.com |
ByteDance Seed research
828 papers in OpenAlex list an author affiliated with ByteDance (China) in the last 12 months. The most cited:
- SCORE: Story Coherence and Retrieval Enhancement for AI Narratives28 May 2026 · 31 citations
- RankMixer: Scaling Up Ranking Models in Industrial Recommenders8 Nov 2025 · 22 citations
- Protenix-v2: Broadening the Reach of Structure Prediction and Biomolecular Design11 Apr 2026 · 21 citations
- Sa2VA: Marrying SAM2 With MLLM for Dense Grounded Understanding of Images and Videos4 Aug 2026 · 20 citations
- Protenix-v1: Toward High-Accuracy Open-Source Biomolecular Structure Prediction9 Feb 2026 · 19 citations
Source: OpenAlex (CC0), institution ByteDance (China), read 2 Nov 2026.
ByteDance Seed models
Latest releases
- ByteDance-Seed/PAR3 Jul 2026
- ByteDance-Seed/TaskMem2 Jun 2026
- ByteDance-Seed/SimArt19 May 2026
- ByteDance-Seed/Cola-DLM15 May 2026
- ByteDance-Seed/Stable-DiffCoder-8B-Instruct15 Jan 2026
- ByteDance-Seed/Stable-DiffCoder-8B-Base15 Jan 2026
Most downloaded
- ByteDance-Seed/SeedVR2-7B46,135 downloads (30 days)
- ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct40,259 downloads (30 days)
- ByteDance-Seed/SeedVR2-3B23,260 downloads (30 days)
- ByteDance-Seed/UI-TARS-1.5-7B20,277 downloads (30 days)
- ByteDance-Seed/academic-ds-9B14,810 downloads (30 days)
Source: Hugging Face Hub, organisation ByteDance-Seed, read 2 Nov 2026.
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