Doubao

ByteDance's Doubao Phone Assistant has launched its consumer version, adding screen-based Q&A, local search, and voice activation. The 'operate phone' feature is in beta.

AI Applications • TechNode

ByteDance's Volcengine fully released Doubao-Seed-2.1-pro 0915, claiming multimodal coding capabilities, including rebuilding a 280,000-line Java ERP from screen recordings and achieving ~83% mergeable Luanti repo fixes. The company also claims over 30% lower image/video inference token costs.

Model Release • Pandaily