ByteDance introduces Seedream 5.5, an image model with native transparent output

ByteDance Seed announced Seedream 5.5, its image generation and editing model. The team says it makes images more realistic and keeps editing stable across 100 rounds, with pixel-level preservation of unedited regions and less detail loss over successive edits.

It also says the model can generate transparent and semi-transparent assets with native RGBA output, ready for compositing, and that lighting, materials and skin textures look more natural, with significantly better small-text rendering. These are ByteDance's claims.

ByteDance says Seedream 5.5 is coming to Dreamina, CapCut and BytePlus.