SenseTime announces the SenseNova Loop 9B preview

SenseTime announced SenseNova-Loop-9B-Preview, a text-and-image model that reuses decoder weights through a fixed loop. Apache 2.0 weights were available, with repository uploads preceding the dated announcement.

A looped multimodal preview

SenseNova’s model card dates its release notice to October 30, and TPS’s November 1 report corroborates that announcement date. The repository records an October 29 upload containing weight shards. This event records the later announcement without treating commit history as proof of when the repository first became public. [1][2][3][4]

The model takes text and images and produces text. Its decoder executes a shared middle block twice, creating a deeper computation path without a second copy of those weights. The release uses Apache 2.0; local deployment instructions and downloads do not establish a managed API release. [1][2][5]

Sources

  1. SenseNova-Loop-9B-Preview

    SenseNova · retrieved Nov 3, 2026

  2. SenseTime open-sources 9B SenseNova-Loop-9B-Preview, a looped model, under Apache 2.0

    TPS · Nov 1, 2026

  3. sensenova/SenseNova-Loop-9B-Preview commit history

    sensenova · retrieved Nov 3, 2026

  4. SenseNova-Loop-9B-Preview revision files

    SenseNova · retrieved Nov 3, 2026

  5. LICENSE

    SenseNova · retrieved Nov 3, 2026