ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI Video Model Drives Stock Rally, Redefines Content Creation

• ByteDance's new AI video model, Seedance 2.0, generates short cinematic videos from text or images with synced audio.
• It uses a dual-branch diffusion transformer structure, producing video and sound simultaneously, unlike separate layering.
• Seedance 2.0 features 'multi-lens storytelling,' creating linked scenes with consistent characters and style from a single prompt.
• The model generates 2K video 30% faster than rivals and supports multiple input types: text, images, video, and audio.
• Its launch on February 7 led to a rally in shares of Chinese media and AI-linked firms, signaling a competitive phase in video-generation tech.