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🟠 ByteDance Attacks Google With Image AI
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TOP BIT
🖼️ Seedream 4.0: ByteDance Challenges Google
Prompt: Apply the clothing and accessories from images 2 and 3 to the woman in image 1, and have her hold the bag from image 4. Keep the original scene unchanged.
TikTok owner ByteDance has unveiled Seedream 4.0, an image AI model that combines text-to-image generation with precise editing in one system. The company says it is significantly faster than its predecessor and outperforms Google’s “Gemini 2.5 Flash Image” in its own tests. The tool is already available in apps and in the cloud.
The Details
🧪 Own Benchmark: ByteDance reports top scores in …