Core Insights - Volcano Engine officially launched Doubao Model 1.8 and Seedance 1.5 pro at the FORCE conference, with Doubao Model ranking among the top globally in multimodal understanding, generation capabilities, and agent abilities [1][3] - As of December, Doubao Model's daily token usage exceeded 50 trillion, marking a growth of over 10 times compared to the same period last year, with over 100 enterprise clients using more than 1 trillion tokens [1] Doubao Model 1.8 - Doubao Model 1.8 is optimized for multimodal agent scenarios, enhancing tool invocation, complex instruction adherence, and OS agent capabilities, improving task planning and execution [3] - The model's video understanding capability increased from 640 frames to 1280 frames per instance, allowing for low-frame-rate understanding of long videos and high-frame-rate analysis of key segments, applicable in online education and product quality inspection [3] Performance Metrics - Doubao Model 1.8 demonstrated competitive performance in various public evaluations, achieving top or near-top scores in visual reasoning, general visual question answering, spatial understanding, and video understanding tasks [5] - It leads globally in the BrowserComp general intelligence assessment and is approaching the top tier of foundational capabilities in mathematics and reasoning [5] Seedance 1.5 pro - Seedance 1.5 pro addresses the growing demand for video creation, featuring cinematic narrative tension and precise motion detail capture, with breakthroughs in audio-visual synchronization technology [6] - The model supports multi-language dialogue with accurate lip-syncing, covering various Chinese dialects, English, and minority languages, enhancing the realism and global creative potential of video content [6] - A new "Draft Sample" feature will allow creators to generate low-resolution previews, improving overall efficiency by 65% and reducing ineffective creation costs by 60% [6] AI Cloud-Native Architecture - Volcano Engine is upgrading its enterprise-level AI agent platform, AgentKit, to address challenges in agent deployment, identity management, model determinism, and system integration [8] - The HiAgent workstation will facilitate the large-scale management and application of agents by providing a unified AI task scheduling center and customizable intelligent agents [8] - An "AI Savings Plan" has been introduced, offering tiered discounts for on-demand large model products, potentially saving enterprises up to 47% [8]