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Seed 1.6

Seed 1.6 is a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 23B active parameters out of 230B total, a context window of 256K tokens, and three reasoning modes including adaptive chain-of-thought (CoT) that calibrates thinking depth to question complexity.

ReasoningTool UseImplicit Cachingtiered-cost
index.ts
import { streamText } from 'ai'
const result = streamText({
model: 'bytedance/seed-1.6',
prompt: 'Why is the sky blue?'
})

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