Seedream 5.0

Seedream 5.0 Lite is ByteDance Seed's unified multimodal intelligent image creation model, released February 12-13, 2026. It pairs image generation with deeper visual reasoning and real-time web retrieval - the "thinking" layer that separates it from the Seedream 4.x generation.

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