ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash
Seed 1.6 Flash is an ultra-fast multimodal deep thinking model by ByteDance Seed, supporting both text and visual understanding. It features a 256k context window and can generate outputs of up to 16k tokens.
Specifications
| Context Window | 262K |
| Modalities | text, vision |
| Status | available |
| Category | third-party |
| Model ID | bytedance-seed/seed-1.6-flash |
Quick Start
import OpenAI from 'openai'
const client = new OpenAI({
apiKey: process.env.HANZO_API_KEY,
baseURL: 'https://api.hanzo.ai/v1'
})
const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
model: 'bytedance-seed/seed-1.6-flash',
messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Hello!' }]
})
console.log(response.choices[0].message.content)from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
api_key=os.environ["HANZO_API_KEY"],
base_url="https://api.hanzo.ai/v1"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="bytedance-seed/seed-1.6-flash",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)curl https://api.hanzo.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $HANZO_API_KEY" \
-d '{
"model": "bytedance-seed/seed-1.6-flash",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
}'package main
import (
"context"
"fmt"
"os"
"github.com/sashabaranov/go-openai"
)
func main() {
cfg := openai.DefaultConfig(os.Getenv("HANZO_API_KEY"))
cfg.BaseURL = "https://api.hanzo.ai/v1"
client := openai.NewClientWithConfig(cfg)
resp, _ := client.CreateChatCompletion(context.Background(),
openai.ChatCompletionRequest{
Model: "bytedance-seed/seed-1.6-flash",
Messages: []openai.ChatCompletionMessage{
{Role: openai.ChatMessageRoleUser, Content: "Hello!"},
},
},
)
fmt.Println(resp.Choices[0].Message.Content)
}More from ByteDance Seed
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Seed-2.0-mini targets latency-sensitive, high-concurrency, and cost-sensitive scenarios, emphasizing fast response and flexible inference deployment. It delivers performance comparable to ByteDance-Seed-1.6, supports 256k context, four reasoning effort modes (minimal/low/medium/high), multimodal understanding, and is optimized for lightweight tasks where cost and speed take priority.
Seed 1.6 is a general-purpose model released by the ByteDance Seed team. It incorporates multimodal capabilities and adaptive deep thinking with a 256K context window.
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