OpenAI vs SenseTime

OpenAI — Foundation Models · Private · $852B valuation · 5 of 5 figures sourced  |  SenseTime — Foundation Models · Public · $7.7B mkt cap · 4 of 5 figures sourced

Relationship

Overlaps on code generation, data analysis, image generation and 1 more; smaller scale (public).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

4 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scale

4 of 17 capabilities — Shares code generation, data analysis, image generation and 1 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application and model API.

Ludbee product records

Smaller scale — SenseTime: $7.7B market cap, against OpenAI's $852B valuation.

Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimate

Aligned comparison

FieldOpenAISenseTime
Size$852B valuation$7.7B mkt cap different basis
Employees4,5002,472 SenseTime has 45% fewer
Founded20152014 1 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePublic
CategoryFoundation ModelsFoundation Models match
Stack layerAI agent, Agent platform, Application, Model APIApplication, Hardware, Infrastructure service, Model API, Platform, Robot
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USAShanghai, China

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Code generationData analysisImage generationText generation

Not verified for SenseTime · 13

Agent orchestrationAgentic codingCode reviewData securityDocument extractionEvaluation and observabilityPresentation generationSpeech to textSummarizationText to speechThreat detection and responseSearch answersWorkflow automation

Recorded for OpenAI. SenseTime’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for OpenAI · 10

AI compute hardwareAvatar videoGPU cloudModel hostingModel inferenceModel trainingRobot controlVideo analyticsVideo editingVideo generation

Recorded for SenseTime. OpenAI’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

OpenAI

Application

ChatGPTApplication

Assistant for chat, web search, file analysis and image generation, used in the browser and in desktop and mobile apps; developers can build custom in-chat apps for it via the Apps SDK, built on the Model Context Protocol.

ChatGPT AtlasApplication

OpenAI's agentic web browser. Deprecated on 9 August 2026, with its browser-based agentic capabilities moved into ChatGPT and Codex.

ChatGPT GovApplication

A version of ChatGPT that US government agencies deploy in their own Microsoft Azure commercial or Azure Government cloud, so the agency manages its own security, privacy and compliance.

ChatGPT for ExcelApplication

ChatGPT in the Excel ribbon: builds and edits spreadsheets, formulas and formatting from plain-language requests, answers questions about what is in the workbook, and asks permission before changing it. OpenAI's own page bundles this with a separate ChatGPT for Google Sheets add-in; this record covers the Excel add-in only.

ChatGPT for PowerPointApplication

ChatGPT in the PowerPoint ribbon: creates new slides, rewrites and restructures an existing deck, and turns notes, documents or spreadsheets into presentation-ready content while keeping the output editable in PowerPoint.

ChatGPT for WordApplication

ChatGPT in a Microsoft Word sidebar: drafts, revises and reorganizes the open document from notes or pasted source text, pulling in context from connected apps like Outlook, SharePoint, Google Workspace and Dropbox.

SoraApplication

OpenAI's text-to-video product. The web and app experiences were discontinued on 26 April 2026; the API will be discontinued on 24 September 2026.

Model API

OpenAI APIModel API

Hosted API for OpenAI's text, image, audio and embedding models, billed per token.

SenseTime

Application

CapiApplication

SenseTime's AI-powered personal-finance assistant (the audit's candidate name 'Kapi Money' is a mistranscription of the real product, Capi, which the vendor's own announcement distinguishes from the similarly-named Kapi/Kapi Cam camera app).

Kapi CamApplication

AI-powered retro-style (Y2K/CCD) photo and video camera app, distinct from Capi (SenseTime's finance assistant) despite the similar name.

Kapi HealthApplication

AI-powered health-tracking companion app (sleep, HRV, activity strain and recovery) built on Apple HealthKit data, from the same publisher shell (TETRAS.AI HONGKONG CO., LIMITED) as the existing Kapi Cam and Kapi Money records.

Office Raccoon (RaccoonWork)Application

AI office productivity assistant (data analysis, AI-editable PPT generation, task planning) built on SenseTime's large language model, distributed via web, iOS app and an OpenClaw agent-skill integration.

Seko AgentApplication

AI video generation tool for creating and editing consistent multi-episode video series.

SenseAvatarApplication

Creates digital-human videos and livestreams from a source image/script.

Model API

SenseNovaModel API

SenseTime's foundation model family and the API platform that serves it.

No counterpart

OpenAI sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for SenseTime yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

AI agent

CodexAI agent

Coding agent that reads, edits and runs a codebase from the terminal, an IDE extension and the ChatGPT web app.

Agent platform

OpenAI DaybreakAgent platform

OpenAI's cybersecurity offering, bringing together frontier cyber models, Codex Security and partner workflows to find, validate and fix vulnerabilities, with an access-gated Daybreak Red tier for authorised vulnerability research and red teaming.

OpenAI FrontierAgent platform

Enterprise platform for connecting AI agents to systems of record and running them under enterprise identity, access and observability controls.

SenseTime sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for OpenAI yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Platform

SenseFoundryPlatform

Computer-vision platform for city and enterprise deployments, covering video analysis, access control and traffic management.

Infrastructure service

Elastic Compute ServiceInfrastructure service

Rentable accelerated compute instances for AI development and inference on SenseCore.

Elastic Container PlatformInfrastructure service

Managed Kubernetes platform for running AI workloads on SenseCore.

SenseCoreInfrastructure service

SenseTime's AI compute service, providing training and inference capacity on its own data centres.

SenseScale SSPInfrastructure service

Manages heterogeneous AI development, training and inference compute across SenseCore's infrastructure.

Hardware

SenseMart GOHardware

Computer-vision-based automated retail checkout system.

SenseNebula PassHardware

Facial-recognition physical access-control system.

Robot

SenseRobotRobot

AI-powered chess (and board game) robot that teaches and plays against a human opponent, sold as a consumer hardware product on its own dedicated domain.