SenseTime Launches 'Galaxy Plan' with 20 Partners to Build 5 Exascale Domestic AI Computing Clusters

At WAIC 2026 on July 18, during SenseTime's Foundation Model Architecture Innovation and Ecosystem Cooperation Forum, co-founder Yang Fan delivered a keynote outlining SenseTime's "technology-ecosystem-business"闭环 strategy for domestic AI infrastructure. He announced the 'Galaxy Plan' in partnership with nearly 20 ecosystem partners, marking what the company calls the "first year of commercial-scale domestic AI infrastructure."

Yang noted that China's 15th Five-Year Plan period opens with transformative trends in AI infrastructure: explosive Token market growth, surging downstream demand, and accelerating commercialization of domestic chips. These factors have opened a window for large-scale domestic AI infrastructure deployment.

Galaxy Plan partners include leading domestic chipmakers Cambricon, MXHI, Hygon (HaiGuang), Huawei Ascend, Moore Threads, Sunrise, and BirenTech, as well as core component partner Xizhi Technology and infrastructure firms such as SiliconFlow, Trendjourney, and ZKAI (Zhongke Jiahe). SenseTime will jointly build five 10,000-GPU-scale domestic AI computing clusters under the initiative.

On the technology front, SenseTime has achieved 85-152% MFU improvements on mainstream domestic chips through heterogeneous hybrid inference, expanding Token output by 2.5x at the same cost. The company also introduced an electricity-computing collaborative Agent that uses a "compute x power x agent" model to reduce average electricity costs by 10% versus local IDCs while achieving 96% load forecasting accuracy.

SenseTime signed a strategic space computing agreement with Guoxing Aerospace to extend AI infrastructure from terrestrial GPU clusters to orbital satellite collaboration. By 2030, the partnership aims to build the "SenseTime Space Computing Constellation" with 1,000+ computing satellites and over 10,000 PetaFLOPS of total space-based compute power.

Additionally, SenseTime launched a science discovery platform in partnership with five top research institutions including Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Zhongguancun College, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, creating an integrated research service system spanning compute infrastructure, platform tools, model capabilities, and scientific innovation.

On regional deployment, SenseTime has built the first 5A-grade computing center in Shanghai serving 20+ trillion Tokens daily. It is constructing Hong Kong's largest domestic AI computing center targeting 40,000P by 2030, and will deploy China's first overseas domestic computing cluster in Saudi Arabia.