Seed Oss 36b Instruct: developer identified as ByteDance Seed
Tracker verifies ByteDance Seed as the model’s developer
Developer identified as ByteDance Seed — verified by the OnAirToday AI Progress Tracker against the vendor's published documentation.
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The OnAirToday AI Progress Tracker recorded a verified change to Seed Oss 36b Instruct (version seed-oss-36b-instruct): Developer identified as ByteDance Seed.
Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct is ByteDance Seed’s open-weight, 36-billion-parameter dense language model, released under the Apache 2.0 license. It supports a documented 512K-token context window and configurable thinking budgets for text-based reasoning, coding and tool-use workflows.
What changed in this review:
- Added documented open-weight licensing, configurable thinking budgets and tool-use capabilities.
Teams building on Seed Oss 36b Instruct should confirm limits, pricing and benchmark coverage against the vendor's own documentation before relying on these figures.
The full profile — capabilities, benchmark citations, known flaws and risk guidance — is on the tracker at /ai-models/seed-oss-36b-instruct.
References:
- https://huggingface.co/ByteDance-Seed/Seed-OSS-36B-Instruct
- https://github.com/ByteDance-Seed/seed-oss
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