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Seed-TTS
Seed-TTS is a family of large-scale speech generation models from ByteDance's Seed team, first described in June 2024, that clones a speaker's voice from a few seconds of reference audio.
Seed1.5-VL (ByteDance)
Seed1.5-VL is a proprietary vision-language foundation model developed by ByteDance's Seed team and released in May 2025, served only through Volcano Engine and retired in March 2026.
Seedance
Seedance is a family of text-to-video and multimodal audio-video generation models developed by ByteDance's Seed team, first released in 2025 and expanded through the 2.0 and 2.5 generations in 2026.
Seedance 2.0 copyright controversy
The Seedance 2.0 copyright controversy is a February 2026 dispute in which Hollywood's major studios accused ByteDance's AI video model of generating unauthorized clips of copyrighted characters and real actors.
Seedance 2.5
Seedance 2.5 is a video generation model released by ByteDance's Seed team on July 31, 2026, known for single-pass 30-second clips with synchronized audio and up to 50 reference inputs.
Seeded soft X-ray laser
A seeded soft X-ray laser injects a coherent high-harmonic seed into a plasma amplifier or free-electron laser, producing fully coherent extreme ultraviolet and soft X-ray beams.
Seeder-feeder mechanism
The seeder-feeder mechanism is an orographic precipitation process in which precipitation from an upper seeder cloud falls through a lower feeder cloud, enhancing rainfall on hills.
Seedfeeder
Seedfeeder is the pseudonym of an anonymous illustrator who contributed 48 sexually explicit drawings to Wikipedia from 2008 to 2012, styled after airline safety pamphlets; praised by Gawker and Artnet, criticized as racist or sexist, he retired in June 2012.
Seediq Bale
Seediq Bale (賽德克·巴萊), also released as Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale, is Wei Te-sheng's 2011 Taiwanese epic about the 1930 Wushe Incident, produced by John Woo, the costliest Taiwanese film, and Golden Horse Best Feature winner.
Seedless fruit
Seedless fruit develops without mature seeds via parthenocarpy (fruit set without fertilization) or stenospermocarpy (seed abortion after fertilization), as in seedless grapes, bananas, citrus, and watermelon, controlled by auxin, gibberellin, and cytokinin.
Seedream
Seedream is a family of closed-weight text-to-image and image-editing models developed by ByteDance's Seed research team, first documented with Seedream 2.0 in early 2025 and positioned among the quality leaders in commercial image generation through 2026.
Seedream 4.0
Seedream 4.0 is a text-to-image generation and image-editing model released by ByteDance's Seed team on September 9, 2025, notable for unifying both tasks in a single architecture and briefly topping third-party image-generation leaderboards.
Seeds of Yesterday
Seeds of Yesterday is V.C. Andrews' 1984 Gothic novel, the fourth Dollanganger book, narrated by Cathy from age 52 until her death; adapted as a 2015 Lifetime film directed by Shawn Ku.
Seeds of Yesterday (film)
Seeds of Yesterday is a 2015 American made-for-television thriller directed by Shawn Ku, starring Rachael Carpani, Jason Lewis, and James Maslow, the final film in Lifetime's Dollanganger series, based on V.C. Andrews' 1984 novel.
Seedtag
Seedtag is a Spanish-founded advertising technology company in New York and Madrid that sells cookie-free contextual advertising, founded in Madrid in 2014 by ex-Googlers Jorge Poyatos and Albert Nieto.
Seeed Studio
Seeed Studio is an open-source hardware provider in Shenzhen, China, founded by Eric Pan in 2008, offering Grove modular electronics, XIAO development boards, and prototype-to-production manufacturing services.
Seeed Studio XIAO
The Seeed Studio XIAO is a series of thumb-sized microcontroller development boards by Seeed Studio, all in one 21 × 17.8 mm form factor and spanning chips from Espressif, Nordic, Raspberry Pi, and Microchip.
Seegene
Seegene (Korean: 씨젠) is a South Korean molecular diagnostics company in Seoul, founded in 2000, that develops multiplex PCR tests detecting multiple pathogens in one test.
Seegrid Corp (company)
Seegrid Corporation is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania company that builds vision-guided autonomous lift trucks, tow tractors, and warehouse automation software, founded in 2003 by roboticist Hans Moravec.
Seeiso
Seeiso Griffith (1905 to 1940) was Paramount Chief of Basutoland, later Lesotho, from 1939 until his death after just over a year in office; his son later reigned as King Moshoeshoe II.
Seek (online employment marketplace)
Seek is an online employment marketplace founded in Melbourne, Australia in 1997, which facilitates nearly a third of Australian job placements and operates JobStreet and JobsDB across Asia.
Seek Bromance (music)
"Seek Bromance" is a 2010 progressive house single by Avicii, released under his early moniker Tim/Berg; it is the vocal version of his instrumental "Bromance".
Seek time
Seek time is the time a hard disk drive takes to move its read/write heads to the track holding the requested data, typically around 5 to 10 milliseconds.
Seekers of Infinite Love
Seekers of Infinite Love is a 2026 American comedy, Victoria Strouse's directorial debut, premiered at SXSW on March 12, 2026. Hannah Einbinder, John Reynolds, Griffin Gluck, Justin Theroux, and Greg Kinnear star as siblings and a deprogrammer rescuing a sister from a Kentucky doomsday cult.
Seekest Thou the Road
"Seekest Thou the Road" is the premiere episode of Marvel's Disney+ miniseries Agatha All Along, aired September 18, 2024. Written and directed by Jac Schaeffer, it traps Agatha Harkness in a crime-drama illusion before revealing her lost powers, Rio Vidal, and the Salem Seven.
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World is a 2012 apocalyptic romantic comedy-drama, Lorene Scafaria's directorial debut, starring Steve Carell and Keira Knightley as neighbors on a road trip before asteroid Matilda hits Earth; released by Focus Features June 22, 2012.
Seeking Mavis Beacon
Seeking Mavis Beacon (2024) is Jazmin Renée Jones's documentary, made with Olivia McKayla Ross, searching for Renée L'Esperance, the Haitian model behind the fictional Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing icon; Sundance premiere, NEON release, 76% Tomatometer.
Seeking the King
Seeking the King (왕을 찾아서, Wangeul Chajaseo) is a South Korean SF robot film directed by Won Shin-yeon, starring Koo Kyo-hwan, Yoo Jae-myung, and Seohyun. Set in 1980 in the DMZ Punchbowl, it follows an army doctor befriending a crash-landed giant robot named Cheol-i.
Seeking the Tao in Autumn Mountains
Seeking the Tao in Autumn Mountains (秋山问道图) is a hanging scroll in ink on silk attributed to the monk-painter Juran, held in the National Palace Museum, Taipei.
Seeley Booth
Seeley Joseph Booth is the FBI Special Agent and Jeffersonian liaison in Fox's Bones (2005-2017), played by David Boreanaz; a former 75th Ranger sniper from Philadelphia who partners with and later marries Temperance Brennan.