# ByteDance — Seed 2.0 Official Launch

- Company: ByteDance (bytedance.com)
- Announced: 2026-02-13T16:00:00+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Subject: Seed / Doubao
- Models affected: Seed2.0, Seed2.0 Pro, Seed2.0 Code
- Source: https://seed.bytedance.com/en/blog/seed-2-0-official-launch
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4667-seed-2-0-official-launch

ByteDance announces the Seed2.0 series of large language models, optimized for large-scale production deployment and featuring improved multimodal understanding, instruction following, and inference options. The series includes Pro, Lite, and Mini models, plus a dedicated Code model, and ranks highly on LMSYS Chatbot Arena benchmarks.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://seed.bytedance.com/en/blog/seed-2-0-official-launch:

> we are honored to introduce the latest Seed2.0 series

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