Seedance 2.0 Deep Dive: ByteDance AI Video That...

Originally published at heyuan110.com In February 2026, ByteDance released Seedance 2.0. Within weeks, it hit #1 on the Artificial Analysis text-to-video leaderboard — beating Google Veo 3, OpenAI Sora 2, and Runway Gen-4.5 in blind human evaluation. If you are reading this from outside China, you have probably heard the buzz but face a wall of confusion: What is Dreamina? What is VolcEngine? Can you even sign up without a Chinese phone number? This guide is written specifically for internationa