Breaking the 15-Second Barrier: Inside ByteDance’s Seedance 2.5 AI Video Revolution

For the past couple of years, generative AI video has been stuck in a frustrating loop. Creators could conjure up breathtaking, hyper-realistic 5-to-15-second clips, but the moment they tried to build a longer narrative, the illusion fell apart. Characters morphed into strangers, lighting drifted, and stitching separate clips together felt disjointed.