SenseTime AI Releases: SenseNova U1

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ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered one SenseTime release so far: SenseNova U1 on Apr 30, 2026. SenseTime open-sources SenseNova U1 unified multimodal MoE. The entry below has primary-source links, key numbers and the episode where we covered it live.

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SenseNova U1

SenseTime open-sources SenseNova U1 unified multimodal MoE

SenseTime open-sourced SenseNova U1, a unified multimodal MoE model with 8B total and 3B active parameters that handles understanding and generation with no separate encoder or VAE. The architecture builds on a paper the team presented at ICLR last year.

8B total parameters (3B active MoE)