SenseTime’s Galaxy Project targets domestic AI chip scale-up

SenseTime has launched the Galaxy Project, teaming with nearly 20 partners to scale domestic AI chip infrastructure in China.

In a keynote titled ‘Intelligent Transformation and Symbiosis,’ Yang Fan – the company’s co-founder and president of its Large Device Business Group – laid out what SenseTime describes as a closed loop connecting chip-level technology, ecosystem partnerships, and commercial deployment for domestically-produced AI computing power.

Alongside the Galaxy Project, SenseTime signed a space computing agreement with satellite manufacturer Guoxing Aerospace and struck a research partnership with five institutions – including the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory – aimed at scientific computing applications.

Yang framed the timing around three converging trends: token demand climbing across enterprise deployments, industrial AI adoption catching up with consumer-facing use cases, and domestic chip commercialisation reaching a point where intelligent computing centres built on Chinese silicon can be stood up at pace.

However, whether that win...