Doubao Seed 1.8
Notable release: A meaningful new model: a new size or version, or a strong free-to-download model from a known lab.
Key facts
- Released
- Dec 18, 2025
- What it does
- Text and chat: Writes, answers questions and holds a conversation.Sees images: Understands pictures, screenshots and charts you share with it.Watches video: Understands video clips you share with it.
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- How
- For developers, through an API
- Announced as
- “Seed1.8 Model Card: Towards Generalized Real-World Agency”
From trckr's archive of releases before it started watching. Date and details from Epoch AI's database of AI models (CC BY 4.0).
Compare Doubao Seed 1.8 with
It came out 119 days after Seed-OSS-36B-Base, the lab's previous model.
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