SenseTime is a partly state-owned publicly traded artificial intelligence company headquartered in Hong Kong.

[2] Since 2019, SenseTime has been repeatedly sanctioned by the U.S. government due to allegations that its facial recognition technology has been deployed in the surveillance and internment of the Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities.

[7] SenseTime was co-founded in October 2014 by Tang Xiao'ou, a professor of the Department of Information Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and computer scientist Xu Li, among others.

[14] In November 2017, SenseTime set up a 'smart policing' company with Leon, a major supplier of data analysis and surveillance technology in Xinjiang.

"[25] In April 2019, The New York Times reported that SenseTime's software was used in the development of facial recognition systems used by the Chinese government directed largely at Uyghurs.

[27] In October 2019, SenseTime was placed on the United States Bureau of Industry and Security's Entity List for using its technology for human rights abuses in Xinjiang.

[32] In August, SenseTime filed for IPO on Hong Kong Stock Exchange and, in November, received regulatory approval to list.

[35][36] The company denied the allegations, said it had "been caught in the middle of geopolitical disputes," and postponed its Hong Kong IPO plan.

[48] On 31 October, flagshp Chinese publication of SPH Media Trust, Lianhe Zaobao, inked a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SenseTime to digitalise the newspaper's work processes for visual content.

[51] In December 2023, SenseTime introduced SenseRobotGo, an interactive machine that plays the Chinese board game Go, to markets in Japan and South Korea.

Alvin Zou, vice president of SenseTime's Asia Pacific Operations said that their Artificial Intelligence Data Center (AIDC) in Shanghai was equipped by Huawei and Biren Technology's chips.