# SenseCore: physical AI company

Canonical ID: `5f5889aa-3b5c-4647-96e5-5d631f89cc39`

## Key facts

- **Parent + listing:** Wholly-owned compute business of SenseTime Group, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (ticker: 0020.HK); IPO December 2021 raised approximately US$740M.
- **Founded:** SenseCore branding launched 2020 alongside the Shanghai Lingang AIDC; parent SenseTime founded October 2014.
- **GPU inventory:** Company-disclosed figure of ~15,000 GPUs across 12 GPU clusters totaling ~54 million GPU cores, reported for the SenseCore fleet; per-accelerator generation mix (A100 / H800 / H20 / domestic parts) is not broken out publicly.
- **Flagship facility:** SenseTime AIDC in Shanghai Lingang Special Area is the anchor site; additional announced capacity in Shenzhen and Fujian province. Total MW capacity is not publicly disclosed on a facility-level basis.
- **Silicon posture:** Pre-2023 buildout leaned on Nvidia A100 and China-market H800; post-export-control additions rely on the China-legal Nvidia H20 tier plus domestic accelerators. No disclosed AMD, Cerebras or Intel Gaudi footprint.
- **Positioning:** Captive-first, merchant-second: SenseCore both trains SenseTime's own SenseNova foundation models and rents capacity plus model-serving to Chinese enterprise, academic and government customers. Training-heavy rather than inference-only.
- **US sanctions exposure:** Parent SenseTime placed on the US Treasury Non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies List in December 2021; designated a 'Chinese military company' by the US Department of Defense in December 2024. Effectively closes SenseCore's addressable market to non-US customers.
- **Announced hourly pricing:** No public GPU-hour rate card comparable to US neoclouds; SenseCore capacity is sold via SenseTime enterprise contracts and the SenseNova/ModelStudio platform, not on-demand self-service.
- **Recent milestone:** April 2024: SenseTime shares rose roughly 30% on the SenseNova 5.0 foundation-model launch, the flagship training run on SenseCore infrastructure.
- **Leadership event:** Co-founder and chairman [Tang Xiao'ou](/people/tang-xiaoou.md) died in December 2023; CEO [Xu Li](/people/xu-li.md) assumed expanded leadership over the group and its compute business.

- **Slug:** sensecore
- **Status:** active
- **Founded:** 2020
- **HQ:** Shanghai, China (parent SenseTime HQ: Hong Kong)

## Models

_No models registered._

## Current leadership (2)

- [Xu Li](/people/xu-li.md) CEO and Executive Director, SenseTime Group (oversees SenseCore) (_reported, not verified_)
- [Tang Xiao'ou](/people/tang-xiaoou.md) Co-founder and former Chairman (deceased December 2023) (_reported, not verified_)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is SenseCore?

SenseCore is the AI compute-infrastructure arm of SenseTime, the Hong Kong-listed Chinese computer-vision group founded in 2014 by Tang Xiao'ou and Xu Li. Launched publicly in 2020 alongside the group's flagship AI Data Center (AIDC) in Shanghai's Lingang Special Area, SenseCore was designed to be more than an internal training farm: SenseTime pitched it as a "large device" that would rent out GPU capacity, foundation-model training runs and inference to Chinese enterprises, universities and government customers. It is one of the largest disclosed GPU estates in mainland China, though the group has never published a per-accelerator inventory in the way US neoclouds like CoreWeave do.

### What does SenseCore make?

SenseCore has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. SenseCore builds physical robots.

### Where is SenseCore headquartered?

SenseCore is headquartered in Shanghai, China (parent SenseTime HQ: Hong Kong).

### Is SenseCore a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, SenseCore ranks in roughly the top 99% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was SenseCore founded?

SenseCore was founded in 2020.


## Sources (3)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SenseTime
2. https://www.sensetime.com/en/technology-new/aidc
3. https://www.sensetime.com/en

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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