Following the widespread popularity of Seedance 2.0, ByteDance is accelerating its commercial deployment. A source close to an application developer within ByteDance's ecosystem exclusively revealed that the API interface for Seedance 2.0 is expected to be opened to external users as early as February 24th. While this specific timeline has not been officially confirmed by ByteDance, multiple signals indicate that the external release of Seedance 2.0 is in its final countdown phase.

Previously, the core capabilities of Seedance 2.0 were primarily confined to ByteDance's internal ecosystem, serving as the underlying technology powering the video generation features of the creative platform "Jimeng AI" and the marketing tool "Xiaoyunque." This signifies that this core capability, which was previously exclusive to ByteDance's internal products, will soon be transformed into a general technical service available to third-party developers and enterprise users.

Furthermore, it is understood from industry sources that several downstream companies have already been informed of the related developments and have formulated integration plans, aiming to capitalize on the AI video generation boom. However, large-scale API opening is not merely a simple interface connection; it will represent an extreme stress test for ByteDance's underlying computing power reserves.

Compared to traditional large language models, video generation models consume GPU computing power at an exponential rate. The continuous computation of video frames, high-resolution rendering, and simulation of complex physical laws place extremely high demands on computing infrastructure. Recent test data indicates that while Seedance 2.0's performance is impressive, it still faces challenges in actual user experience: the current generation speed is relatively slow, and there is a certain rate of generation failures.

Industry insiders speculate that these phenomena are highly likely related to current "computing power congestion." If the API opens as scheduled on February 24th, a massive influx of external concurrent requests will multiply the load pressure on servers. How to maintain "stable delivery speed" will be a critical challenge that Seedance 2.0 urgently needs to solve in its upcoming commercialization test.