Volcano Engine Releases Doubao Large Model 1.8
Volcano Engine launched Doubao Large Model 1.8 and Seedance 1.5 Pro on December 18, 2025, at its FORCE Original Power Conference, promoting multimodal and agent capabilities. Doubao 1.8 doubles video-frame inference to 1,280 frames, claims global top-tier benchmark results, and reports daily token usage exceeding 50 trillion; Seedance 1.5 Pro adds millisecond audio-visual sync and enterprise APIs from December 23. The company also introduced AgentKit, HiAgent Workbench, and an AI cost-saving program to accelerate agent deployments.
Key Points
- 1Launches Doubao 1.8 and Seedance 1.5 Pro with multimodal and agent-focused upgrades.
- 2Demonstrates 10× year-over-year growth to over 50 trillion daily tokens, signaling production-scale usage.
- 3Enables long-video analysis and tool-invoking agents, applicable to education, industrial inspection, enterprise APIs.
Scoring Rationale
Major product upgrade with strong usage metrics and agent features, limited global validation beyond company-reported benchmarks.
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