China’s artificial intelligence (AI) market sees heightened competition, as various model providers – from SenseTime to ByteDance – step up efforts to enhance their services.
Hong Kong-listed SenseTime has upgraded its Cantonese-speaking chatbot, Sensechat, with a comprehensive set of new features that include real-time audio and video-interaction capabilities, according to the company’s announcement on Thursday.
Other enhancements include visual reasoning capabilities, which allow Sensechat to “see” and “think” while engaging with users. The feature was made possible by the multimodal reasoning capabilities of SenseTime’s SenseNova V6 AI model, the company said.
Multimodal models are designed to understand multiple types of input data such as text, video and audio, unlike traditional models that only handle one type.
That upgrade comes a day after TikTok parent ByteDance launched a suite of new AI models and tools at reduced prices, underscoring the intensifying competition in the domestic market after Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s cost-effective products garnered global attention.
