Core Insights - Volcano Engine officially launched Doubao Model 1.8 and Seedance 1.5 pro at the FORCE Original Power Conference, with Doubao Model ranking among the top global models in multimodal understanding, generation capabilities, and agent capabilities [1][5] Doubao Model 1.8 - Doubao Model 1.8 has achieved a daily token usage exceeding 50 trillion, a growth of over 10 times compared to the same period last year [1][5] - More than 100 enterprise clients have accumulated over 1 trillion tokens in usage [1][5] - The model is optimized for multimodal agent scenarios, enhancing tool invocation, complex instruction adherence, and OS agent capabilities, improving task planning and execution [1][5] - In visual understanding, the model's video frame understanding capability has doubled from 640 frames to 1280 frames, supporting low-frame-rate understanding of long videos and high-frame-rate understanding of key segments [1][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, along with breakthroughs in audio-visual synchronization technology [2][6] - The model employs an innovative native audio-video joint generation architecture, achieving millisecond-level audio-visual synchronization and supporting multi-language dialogue with accurate lip-syncing [2][6] - A new "Draft Sample" feature will allow creators to generate low-resolution previews that closely match the final output, improving overall efficiency by 65% and reducing ineffective creation costs by 60% [2][6] - Individual users can experience the model on platforms like Doubao and Jimeng AI, while enterprise users can access it via Volcano Engine API starting December 23 [2][6] Agent Development - Volcano Engine has upgraded its enterprise-level AI Agent platform, AgentKit, covering the entire lifecycle of agent development, deployment, and management [3][7] - The platform aims to address core challenges in agent implementation, including identity and permission management, model determinism, and system integration [3][7] - The company introduced the first "AI Savings Plan" in the industry, offering tiered discounts for all pay-as-you-go large model products, enabling enterprises to save up to 47% on costs [3][7]