Douyin's interactive AI was used 1.9 billion times on the night before Chinese New Year. Seedance 2.0 provided technical support for the Spring Festival Gala.

On February 16th, Douyin's AI assistant Dou Bao collaborated with CCTV's Spring Festival Gala to offer 100,000 technology gifts to viewers nationwide and introduced multiple AI interactive gameplay. Dou Bao revealed that on New Year's Eve, the total AI interactions reached 1.9 billion. AI image generation and New Year greetings in the Spring Festival setting attracted user participation. Data shows that the "Dou Bao New Year" activity helped generate over 50 million new spring-themed avatars and over 100 million new year blessings on New Year's Eve. This year marks the first time in the history of CCTV's Spring Festival Gala that AI has been used to drive real-time interactive creations for the entire nation. According to statistics from ByteDance, on New Year's Eve, the peak TPM (tokens per minute) of Dou Bao's large model occurred at 9:46 p.m., just after the host announced the second round of interaction using Dou Bao during the Spring Festival Gala. Within that minute, the inference throughput of Dou Bao's large model reached 63.3 billion tokens. ByteDance's Volcano Engine, through flexible calculation allocation and deep system optimization, ensured the stability and smoothness of Dou Bao's AI interaction. As the exclusive AI cloud partner of CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, the Volcano Engine provides advanced multimodal large models and cloud computing technology support for the Gala. The widely popular Dou Bao video generation model Seedance 2.0, which had been used in visual creations for multiple Gala programs before its release. The Volcano Engine introduced that the program "The Song of the Wind" aimed to dynamically interpret national treasure-level ink paintings. Seedance 2.0 not only accurately retained the strokes and ink charm of ink paintings, but also completed a series of high-difficulty movements and camera adjustments, ensuring vivid and natural horse running actions, while maintaining the original's sense of power and rhythm. In the program "The God of Flowers", the model demonstrated extreme control over details. In the production of Scarlet Mallow and goldfish, Seedance 2.0 customized a visual spectacle for each actor, creating a new stage visual narrative structure using the model of "AI-generated images + real scene stage extension". Currently, Seedance 2.0 and the latest Dou Bao large model 2.0 Pro have been launched on the Dou Bao app, computer client, and web version. Users can experience them through the "Expert Mode" and "Seedance 2.0" entrance. Furthermore, the Volcano Engine also empowers the Spring Festival Gala stage and TikTok live experience through various AI technologies. Through spatial video technology, "Dreams" created the stunning effect of actors performing on stage with 3D digital avatars synchronizing in real-time with the movements of the camera and changes in stage lighting; multiple Siasun Robot & Automation brands with intelligent features appeared on the Spring Festival Gala, all equipped with the Dou Bao large model, enabling natural and vivid language communication. Additionally, leveraging the Dou Bao voice model, the TikTok Spring Festival live broadcast room first launched real-time subtitles covering all programs without native subtitles, such as host segments, sketches, and crosstalk, making the joy of the Gala unimpeded.