ByteDance Launches An Advanced AI Reasoning Model, Doubao-1.5-pro

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On 22nd January 2025, ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, officially released its Doubao-1.5-pro model through the Volcano Engine cloud platform.

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ByteDance Announces the Release of Doubao-1.5-pro

ByteDance claims that the Doubao-1.5-pro model has surpassed OpenAI’s o1, GPT-4o, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet in several performance benchmarks, including AIME.

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Doubao-1.5-pro Claims to Outperform its Competitors

The model is built with a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, along with a heterogeneous system design, to enhance its throughput and reduce latency.

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Doubao-1.5-pro Inner Workings

Doubao-1.5-pro currently offers aggressive pricing for its 32k and 256k token models. Users can sign up on the Volcano Engine platform to access the model.

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Cost-effective Configurations

ByteDance’s launch of Doubao-1.5-pro follows the release of reasoning models by well-known Chinese AI companies, including DeepSeek and Moonshot AI.

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