What is hilarious in ByteDance is how little they have to show for their prowess. Biggest compute stockpile, poaching VPs from GDM, Doubao is super popular… and totally crushed by Zhipu. Still playing around I see
Seed 2.1 Pro Preview ranks #8 in Code Arena: Frontend, scoring 1539, on par with Opus 4.6. It performs strongly on React apps and lands in the top 10 for five of seven subcategories. In those areas, only a handful of frontier labs rank above it: @Zai_Org's GLM-5.2 and @AnthropicAI's Claude models.
Highlights: - #7 on the React leaderboard, #14 on HTML - #6 Brand & Marketing - #9 Content Creation Tools, Data & Analytics =#10 Reference Based Design, Consumer Product
This is an early access preview of the model. It will be publicly available in a few weeks.