LaunchAI ModelsAugust 21, 2026

SenseTime open-sources SenseNova U1.5 Lite, 8B multimodal model

An 8-billion-parameter open-weights model combining visual understanding, generation and editing, it outputs natively at 4K and improves identity preservation and spatial structure during editing. It scores 60.18 on Qwen-Image-Bench (up from U1's 47.14) and is available via GitHub, Hugging Face and ModelScope.

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