Trae: ByteDance launches its AI IDE in China with Doubao-1.5-pro and DeepSeek
In one sentence On March 3, 2025 ByteDance brings Trae to China, a VS Code-derived AI IDE already released abroad: Doubao-1.5-pro is the default model, with the option to switch to DeepSeek R1 and V3. Builder mode generates applications from natural-language descriptions.
Trae is a code editor from ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, built as a fork of Visual Studio Code with the AI assistant built in. It had already been released for the international market with the GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet models; on March 3, 2025 the version for China arrives.
The Chinese version uses ByteDance's Doubao-1.5-pro as its default model and lets users switch to DeepSeek R1 and V3. The main features are code completion, bug fixing, natural-language code generation and Builder mode, which creates an application from a description of what you want to do.
In the same period the international version adds Claude 3.7 Sonnet, offered for free.
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ByteDance
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Trae, Doubao-1.5-pro, DeepSeek-R1, DeepSeek-V3
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