ByteDance's Sora Competitor Seedance 2.0 Tops Video AI Leaderboards

ByteDance launched Seedance 2.0, a multimodal video generation model accepting text, image, and audio inputs, deployed on CapCut's 736M monthly user base. It ranks first on Arena AI and leads Artificial Analysis leaderboards, outperforming Alibaba's HappyHorse-1.0, making it a direct Sora competitor at massive distribution scale.