India, Sept. 14 -- TikTok-owner ByteDance has launched SeedDream 4.0, its newest artificial intelligence tool for image generation and editing. The company claims the tool surpasses Google DeepMind's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, popularly known as Nano Banana, in key areas like prompt accuracy, image alignment, and aesthetics.

According to a South China Morning Post report, the Seed division at ByteDance, which oversees the company's AI development, said the new model combines the text-to-image capabilities of SeedDream 3.0 with the image editing skills of SeedEdit 3.0. According to ByteDance, the tool is ten times faster than previous models in generating images, making it a much quicker option for users.

While DeepMind's Gemini 2.5 has gai...