ByteDance's new "watch and listen" AI signals a broader Chinese push beyond chatbots

ByteDance's Seed research team has released SeedRealtime. This native audio-visual full-duplex large language model, the company says, marks the industry's first large-scale deployment of audio-video full-duplex technology. The launch, announced August 5 on the Seed team's blog, points to where Chinese AI labs are increasingly competing: not just on text benchmarks, but on how naturally a model can see, hear, and respond in real time.