SenseTime unveiled its latest model, SenseNova 5.5, at the World AI Conference in Shanghai. The firm positioned SenseNova 5.5 as comparable to OpenAI’s GPT-4o. Following OpenAI’s decision to block access to its services in China, SenseTime and other Chinese AI companies like Baidu and Tencent are offering free tokens and migration support to attract former OpenAI users. This move has stirred concerns within China’s AI community about equitable access to AI technologies globally, but also presents an opportunity for domestic AI firms to expand their user base and accelerate their development amid rising competition with US counterparts.