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SenseNova-U1-8B

sensenova-u1-8b

Open SourceMultimodalChina

About

SenseNova-U1-8B is SenseTime's open-source 8B multimodal model released April 28, 2026. Dense MoT (Mixture-of-Tokens) backbone. Uses the NEO-Unify architecture that eliminates both the visual encoder and VAE, enabling native unified image understanding and generation in a single representation space — the first commercially viable model with this capability. Achieves commercial-grade image generation quality comparable to Qwen-Image 2.0 Pro. Apache 2.0 license. HuggingFace: OpenSenseNova/SenseNova-U1-8B-MoT. Source: https://github.com/OpenSenseNova/SenseNova-U1

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningFunction CallingTool UseStructured OutputsCode ExecutionPrompt CachingBatch APIAudioFine-tuning

API Versions

sensenova-u1-8b-mot

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Specifications

Released2026-04-28
Parameters8B
ArchitectureDecoder Only
LicenseApache 2.0
Trainingpretrained

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