ByteDance, the Chinese company behind TikTok, has launched Seedream 4.0, an image-making tool designed to rival Google DeepMind’s Nano Banana (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image). Seedream 4.0, developed by ByteDance’s Seed team, offers both text-to-image generation and image editing capabilities. It aims to compete with DeepMind’s image editor, which has gained recognition for its accuracy and consistency since its late August debut. Seedream 4.0, built on a Mixture of Experts (MoE) framework, can generate high-quality images up to 4K resolution, with 2K images produced in approximately 1.8 seconds. While Nano Banana excels in creating realistic and photorealistic outputs, Seedream 4.0 demonstrates the ability to handle multiple reference images, making it a strong contender in image manipulation.
