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What makes ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 different from other AI video tools?

Seedance 2.0 from ByteDance is moving toward native multimodal audio-video generation, meaning it can generate synchronized audio and video together in a single pass rather than producing them separately and stitching them afterward. This approach could eliminate the awkward mismatch between generated visuals and added audio that plagues current AI video workflows.

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