BYTEDANCE UNVEILS NEW AI IMAGE MODEL TO RIVAL GOOGLE DEEPMIND'S ‘NANO BANANA'

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ByteDance's Seedream 4.0 is an AI image model that the company claims is superior to Google DeepMind's "Nano Banana" in prompt adherence, alignment, and aesthetics. The model combines features from previous versions at the same cost of US$30 per 1,000 generations. These claims are based on ByteDance's internal MagicBench benchmark but lack an official technical report.