Volcano Engine President Tan Dai on MaaS Strategy: Top-Tier Models Are the Core Growth Engine, Doubao 2.1 Pro Finally Competitive

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This article is an in-depth interview with Tan Dai, President of ByteDance's Volcano Engine, discussing the company's MaaS (Model as a Service) business strategy and growth. It covers how Volcano Engine, as a latecomer in the cloud market, has achieved remarkable growth through AI, particularly with ByteDance's Doubao 2.1 Pro model and Seedance 2.0 video model. Tan Dai discusses the importance of top-tier models as the core growth engine for MaaS, the company's ambitious revenue targets, and how Doubao 2.1 Pro has finally achieved competitive coding and agent capabilities comparable to Claude Opus 4.7 on the Terminal Bench benchmark.

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