Seedance 2.0 Deep Dive: ByteDance AI Video That Tops Sora and Veo
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Com In February 2026, ByteDance released Seedance 2.0. Within weeks, it hit on the Artificial Analysis text-to-video leaderboard - beating Google Veo 3, OpenAI Sora 2, and Runway Gen-4.5 in blind human evaluation. If you are reading this from outside China, you have probably heard the buzz but face a wall of confusion: What is Dreamina? What is VolcEngine? Can you even without a Chinese number? This guide is written specifically for international users.