Shares of SENSETIME-W (00020) surged more than 6% in morning trading. At the time of writing, the stock was up 5.80%, trading at HK$1.46 with a turnover of HK$337 million.

The company announced via its official WeChat account that the "Foundation Model Architecture Innovation and Ecosystem Cooperation Forum" will commence on the morning of July 18th at the Shanghai World Expo Center. During this event, the company will officially unveil its next-generation flagship multimodal foundation model, SenseTime SenseNova-U1 Pro.

It is reported that the U1 Pro is positioned as the industry's first multimodal agent foundation model with a core of natively unified "Understanding, Generation, and Action," benchmarking against GPT-Image-2, and is set to unlock new application possibilities for the sector. From its natively unified architecture to 8K ultra-high-definition output and precise restoration of Eastern aesthetics, the U1 Pro is redefining the application boundaries for multimodal large models.