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Mar 7, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

SenseTime’s Multimodal Model Skips the Encoder, Boosting Performance and Shifting AI Design Paradigms

SenseTime eliminates the intermediate encoder in multimodal AI models, allowing direct cross‑modal learning, which yields markedly higher performance at 2‑trillion‑parameter scale while reducing training cost, and may trigger a broader industry move toward simpler, more efficient architectures.