SeedRealtime: ByteDance's Full-Duplex Audio-Video AI
ByteDance's Seed team has released SeedRealtime, a native audio-video full-duplex model that watches, listens, and speaks at the same time, rolling out first inside the Doubao app.
Seedream 5.0 Pro in ComfyUI: ByteDance Image Model
ByteDance's Seedream 5.0 Pro folds generation, precision editing, and 10+ layer separation into one model, now a native ComfyUI 0.27.1 partner node.
Seedance 2.0 Mini and 4K Land in ComfyUI
ByteDance Seedance 2.0 Mini and native 4K video are now selectable inside ComfyUI's existing Seedance nodes, with ready-made templates for text, frame, and reference workflows.
ByteDance Open-Sources Bernini-R Video Edit Model
ByteDance releases Bernini-R, an open-source video editing model that handles object insertion, removal, and replacement in existing footage using text prompts.
Reallusion AI Studio: 3D Control Layer for AI Video
Reallusion launched AI Studio on May 25, 2026, pairing iClone 3D animation tools with ByteDance Seedance video generation for 3D-controlled AI video.
ByteDance Lance: 3B Open Model for Image and Video
ByteDance Research released Lance, a 3B Apache 2.0 unified multimodal model that handles image and video generation, editing, and understanding in a single framework. Strong VBench and GenEval scores.
Seedance 2.0 ComfyUI: Real-Human Video Pipeline
ByteDance Seedance 2.0 video model now supports identity-locked real-human video generation in ComfyUI, gated by a 30-second liveness check.