Seedance 2.0: AI Video’s ChatGPT Moment

19 February 2026 Issue: ByteDance's new 4-modal video engine can turn anyone into a film-maker. What does that mean for businesses? We discuss in this edition of our newsletter.

For the last two years, using AI video tools have felt like playing the lottery. You’d type “woman drinking a cup of coffee,” hit generate, and hope for the best. It would be tough to control the mise-en-scene or the woman herself. At best a gimmick for virality, the process did not really offer you the controls you needed to create an ad or even a perf…