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ExplainersSeedance 2.5 guide: specs, prices and access, updated weekly
ExplainersHow ByteDance's Jimeng Short Drama Studio works
NewsCapCut's video editor is coming to ChatGPT as a plugin
ByteDance
ByteDance folds its Xiaoyunque short-drama app into Jimeng
The CapCut unit keeps Xiaoyunque's standalone entry point, but its operations now report to Jimeng's head of operations and marketing.
ByteDance
ByteDance opened a micro-drama factory, and here is how to use it
The studio lives inside Jimeng, which is China-only today, but the pipeline it automates and the models underneath it are reachable from outside through Dreamina and the Seedance 2.5 API. A step-by-step guide to making a 60-episode vertical drama, from premise to cost sheet.
ByteDance
ByteDance's Dreamina builds a studio for AI short dramas
The Jimeng studio writes scripts from novels up to 100,000 Chinese characters and can redraw a finished drama for another region.
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ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 goes 4K for film and television
Volcano Engine says extra training improves facial expressions and small text, and a 480p Draft mode lets teams storyboard before the final 4K render.
Theoretically Media
ByteDance's world model re-shoots a movie scene, and Krea 3 lands
Every segment of Theoretically Media's latest episode, checked against the sources it links: a nameless ByteDance world model turning one drawn camera path into a dozen angles inside a Stephen Chow film, Pico's delayed Vision Pro rival, Krea 3's eight-second edits, the report that Sora comes back through a filmmaker startup, an OpenAI engineer charged over a hidden recorder, and two free tools.
OmniHuman
OmniHuman 2.0 generates 5-minute avatar video at $0.07 a second
BytePlus says the model reads tone, emotion and words in the audio and cut the per-second price from $0.12 to $0.07.
China
China's AI short dramas add 221,900 releases in six months
Of 221,900 AI short dramas on Douyin in the first half of 2026, only 1,055 passed 100 million views, as new rules require labels in every episode.
ByteDance
ByteDance must face YouTubers' DMCA suit over AI training scrape
U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley denied ByteDance's motion to dismiss on October 2, holding the creators plausibly alleged a lost-advertising injury tied to circumvention.
ByteDance
ByteDance's YouTube scraping defense draws a skeptical judge
A San Francisco judge questioned the company's argument that downloading public YouTube videos is not the unauthorized access the DMCA's anti-circumvention rule covers.
Seed Audio 1.5
Seed Audio 1.5 promises six-minute scenes and separate tracks
ByteDance's next audio model adds video dubbing, stem separation and six-minute generations, and it has slipped past the date its partners were given.
ByteDance
ByteDance's Dramagic turns a script into a short drama
BytePlus sells the platform to production teams, and China's netcasting body counted about 128,000 short dramas published in the first quarter of 2026.
ByteDance
Report: ByteDance is building a real-time 20 fps Seedance model
Anonymous sources told Bloomberg that founder Zhang Yiming is overseeing the project and a launch could come as soon as October; ByteDance has not commented and nothing is confirmed.
Seedance 2.5
Seedance 2.5 reviews: 30-second shots are useful but costly
SLOP TV has not tested Seedance 2.5; this digest sets six published write-ups from MindStudio, Curious Refuge and CineD against ByteDance's own specs and API prices.