ByteDance rolls out Seedream 5.5 image model across Dreamina, CapCut and BytePlus

The Seed team's latest image model targets production workflows with multi-turn editing, transparent outputs and sharper text rendering ByteDance is rolling out Seedream 5.5, its newest image generation model, across Dreamina, CapCut and BytePlus. The company behind TikTok is pitching the release as an upgrade for people who edit images for a living. The model comes from ByteDance’s Seed team and launched on November 9, 2026. It is also available on Doubao and Volcano Engine Ark. The headline promise is fewer of the problems that usually make AI images unusable in real work: warped text, drifting colors and edits that quietly wreck the parts of a picture you wanted to keep. What Seedream 5.5 actually does The core feature is what ByteDance describes as pixel-level stable multi-turn editing. Users can run up to 100 rounds of continuous local editing on a single image. The model is meant to hold detail and color accuracy through each round, so the tenth tweak should not undo the first nine. Seedream 5.5 also adds RGBA transparent output. The model can produce images with transparent backgrounds, the kind designers drop straight onto product pages, slides or video overlays without cut...