ByteDance Launches Seedance 2.5 Video Model with 30-Second Clips, Skips US Market
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ByteDance Launches Seedance 2.5 Video Model with 30-Second Clips, Skips US Market
ByteDance released Seedance 2.5 on Dreamina (overseas version of Jimeng) on July 31, generating single continuous video clips up to 30 seconds with no stitching required.
Model accepts up to 50 multimodal reference inputs (images, video, audio) to keep character and scene consistency, and includes native editing tools with multilingual support.
Product launched outside the United States first, deliberately diverging from Sora and Runway's US-centric strategy, with no announced timeline for a US rollout.
Company positions the release as a production-grade tool targeting ad agencies, short-video MCNs, and cross-border e-commerce teams rather than casual demo users.
Pricing, batch-generation concurrency, and long-video motion/lighting stability remain undisclosed and unverified by third-party creators.