Now it’s TikTok parent ByteDance’s turn for a reasoning AI: enter Seed-Thinking-v1.5!

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More It started with the announcement of OpenAI’s o1 model in September 2024, but really took off with DeepSeek R1 released in January 2025. Now, it seems that most major AI model providers and trainers are in a new race to deliver better, faster, cheaper, more affordable or more powerful and performant “reasoning” AI language models — that is, ones that maybe take a little longer to respond to a human user, but ideally do so with better, more comprehensive, more well “reasoned” answers, which these class of models get by performing “chain-of-thought,” reflecting on their own conclusions and interrogating them for veracity before responding. ByteDance, the Chinese web media giant parent of TikTok, is the latest to join the party with announcement and publication of the technical paper behind Seed-Thinking-v1.5, an upcoming large language model (LLM) designed to a ... Read full article.