ByteDance launches Seedream 4.0, an AI image model it claims can beat Google’s viral “nano banana” model in prompt adherence, alignment, and aesthetics (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)

Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post:
ByteDance launches Seedream 4.0, an AI image model it claims can beat Google's viral “nano banana” model in prompt adherence, alignment, and aesthetics  —  ByteDance claims that Seedream 4.0 beat Gemini 2.5 Flash Image for image generation and editing on its internal evaluation benchmark