Volcengine Launches Doubao 1.6-Vision with Tool-Calling

Volcengine, ByteDance's cloud unit, released Doubao 1.6-Vision, its first multimodal model with tool-calling for visual reasoning. It supports image cropping, selection, scaling, rotation, and annotation via the Responses API. Costs drop roughly 50% from the prior Doubao-1.5-Thinking-Vision-Pro, with pricing at RMB 2.6 for a 32K scenario.