The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies SenseTime: $2.8B raised. 2 sources back the record.
Funding
$2.8B
Employees
2.5k
Overview
AI software company specializing in computer vision and deep learning (facial recognition, Smart cities, autonomous driving, generative AI). One of China's 'Four AI Dragons'. Placed on the U.S. BIS Entity List (2019) and Treasury NS-CMIC investment blacklist (Dec 2021) over alleged use of its facial-recognition technology in Xinjiang surveillance.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Focus
Scale
Stage
Backerssee investors →
Revenue
Robotics
Financial stage
Data & sources
Web sources
2
2 sources backing this record.View all →
Partnerships
Every company SenseTime has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Relationships
Former / Previously (1)
- Zhang Wen President at SenseTimesecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for SenseTime.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
SenseTime in third-party press
Financial state
- Total funding
- $2.8B
- Employees
- 2,472
- Reporting basis
- private_disclosed
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- elevated
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
4 total · 4 operating
Every company SenseTime has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
All 4 partnerships
open in the atlas →- sensetime x awswithAWS976technology—operating
- sensetime x nvidiawithNVIDIA1112technology—operating
- SenseTime x CambriconwithCambricontechnology—operating
- SenseTime x ECADIwithECADIdevelopment—operating
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 25, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (2)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- knowledge-base
- Knowledge base
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for SenseTime.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning SenseTime from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Huawei Launches Grid-Interactive AIDC 1.0, Linking AI Data-Center Power, Cooling and Ascend Servers
Huawei Digital Power's grid-interactive AIDC 1.0 pairs grid-forming storage, new UPS lines and an Ascend-aware liquid-cooling controller; a SenseTime site got 18 MW of power in 45…
SenseTime Launches SenseMart OS to Bring Embodied Intelligence Into Retail
Editor’s note: This article was written by Lucia, a TechNode reporter. On Sept. 23, SenseTime launched SenseMart OS at its Shanghai headquarters, positioning it as a physical…
SenseTime Ships SenseNova U1 Pro Image Model With Up to 8K Output via Raccoon and API
SenseTime released the production SenseNova U1 Pro image-creation model through its Raccoon app and SenseNova API, citing interleaved text-image chain-of-thought generation and…
SenseTime releases SenseNova U1 Pro image model with up to 8K output
SenseTime has released the production version of its SenseNova U1 Pro image-creation model, making it available through its Raccoon app and SenseNova API service, according to a…
Imvision Innovation Bets on AI Imaging Co-Processors to Exit Ambarella's Shadow
Spin-out from SenseTime, Imvision Innovation is entering top camera supply chains as an AI imaging co-processor, testing whether it can grow from a second chip into a full SoC.
SenseTime spinout Sunrise reportedly raises RMB2 billion at RMB20 billion valuation
Sunrise, an AI chipmaker spun out of SenseTime’s chip business, has reportedly raised RMB2 billion ($280 million) at a post-money valuation of about RMB20 billion. The reported…
ACE Robotics chairman says robot brains will have ChatGPT moment by end of 2027
ACE Robotics chairman said humanoid robot brains could see a breakthrough by late 2027 similar to ChatGPT's impact on AI, speaking at the World Robot Conference in Beijing.
SenseTime open-sources 8B multimodal model with native 4K image output
SenseTime has open-sourced SenseNova U1.5 Lite, an 8-billion-parameter multimodal model designed to combine visual understanding, image generation and editing in one system. The…
SenseTime expects first-half profit of up to RMB700 million
SenseTime expects to report a profit of between RMB500 million and RMB700 million for the first half of 2026, compared with a loss of about RMB1.489 billion in the same period…
SenseTime Open-Sources SenseNova U1.5-Lite-Preview: Native 4K Direct Output, 8B-MoT Lightweight Unified Multimodal Model With Precise Image Editing and Design Framework Replication
SenseTime releases SenseNova U1.5-Lite-Preview with NEO-Unify architecture, native 4K generation, and precise editing that replicates design frameworks across infographics and…
SenseTime open-sources SenseNova-Vision unified vision model
SenseTime has released and fully open-sourced SenseNova-Vision, a unified vision model in its SenseNova foundation-model suite. The model is designed to handle object detection,…
SenseTime: Not Just a Pretty Face (Recognition) — Ecosystem Companies
SenseTime put strategy into practice: five ecosystem companies secured external capital injections between late 2024 and early 2025.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/sensetime.md
- RSS feed: /companies/sensetime/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/d6678554-4dda-4ee9-97b3-cfc663714d72
- Revision history: /companies/sensetime/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Category contender83/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place SenseTime against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
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Last computed: Oct 2, 2026