Seed-OSS-36B
by ByteDance
· Seed family · released Sep 10, 2025
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ByteDance Seed's open-source 36B reasoning model featuring a controllable 'thinking budget' for inference-time scaling. It was the first open model in ByteDance's Seed-OSS line with chain-of-thought controllability.
This model has no first-party API. Open-weight release: self-host from the published weights.
Specifications
| Model type | Text LLM |
|---|---|
| Architecture | Dense |
| Parameters | 36 |
| Context window | Not disclosed tokens |
| Max output | Not disclosed tokens |
| Knowledge cutoff | Not disclosed |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Modalities | Text input Text output |
| Tags | Reasoning Tool use |
| End of life | Not disclosed |
| Weights | Download |
| Last verified | Not disclosed |