Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for ByteDance for the week ending August 14, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Nano Banana 2.1.
Category Cover Image Prompt: A single vertical phone-shaped pane of pale dawn light floating in vast misty indigo negative space, its screen showing one serene still horizon instead of a scrolling feed, a thin thread of warm gold along one edge, photorealistic magazine-cover minimalism with soft diffused light and the bold title text ByteDance set large and clean in the open sky.
This Week in ByteDance News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
Seedance 2.5 went live on fal. In fal's demo, a drawn line passes under a glacier arch, the camera follows it, and the shot ends at a viking ship in one take. Ethan Mollick ran the same prompt and liked the result, noting the impressive reflections.
Separately, Arena reported that MiniMax-H3 took first place in its Video Edit Arena, 32 points ahead of Dreamina Seedance 2.0 and Gemini Omni Flash.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to ByteDance
Seedance 2.5 is live on fal. The drawn line passes under a glacier arch. So does the camera. Ends at the viking ship, one take.”
https://x.com/fal/status/2086927528032145450
Seedance 2.5 with the same prompt. Lovely and very much reminds me of the (overly) optimistic future of space books that used to be popular; predicting space tourism coming soon. (Also the reflections these models can pull off are impressive)”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2086801016817697025
Exciting update: MiniMax-H3 by @MiniMax_AI just landed #1 in the Video Edit Arena within open models and overall! With 1390 pts, this release is +32 pts over the next two best models, Dreamina Seedance 2.0 and Gemini Omni Flash, and +83 pts than HappyHorse 1.0 at #4. Congrats”
https://x.com/arena/status/2087930695469646276
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