SenseTime open-sources SenseNova U1 for unified text and images
SenseTime just open-sourced SenseNova U1, a unified multimodal model that ditches traditional vision encoders to connect pixels and text end-to-end. It handles visual reasoning, complex infographic layouts, and interleaved image-text creation in a single pass, though photorealistic portraits still look slightly waxy. Why it matters: collapsing understanding and generation into a single monolithic model simplifies the entire multimodal pipeline.