# SenseTime > SenseTime (商汤科技) is a Shanghai-headquartered artificial-intelligence company building foundation models, AI compute infrastructure, and vision AI. Its developer-facing surface is the SenseNova LLM API service platform, exposing large multimodal models (SenseNova U-series, SenseNova 6.x) for text, image, and video understanding, reasoning, and generation. Authentication uses an Access Key ID / Secret Access Key pair (OAuth2/OIDC available via SenseCore signin). An official Python client library and `sensenova` CLI are published. ## APIs - [SenseNova LLM API — Documentation](https://platform.sensenova.cn/en/docs): Chat completions, embeddings, image/video generation, and fine-tuning over HTTP. Base URL https://api.sensenova.cn/v1 - [SenseNova Developer Platform](https://platform.sensenova.cn/en): Console, models, and token plans. ## Auth - Access Key ID + Secret Access Key (AK/SK), signed as a JWT Bearer token in the Authorization header. - OAuth2 / OpenID Connect via SenseCore: https://platform.sensenova.cn/.well-known/openid-configuration (issuer https://signin.sensecore.cn/) ## SDKs & Tools - [sensenova (PyPI)](https://pypi.org/project/sensenova/): Official Python client library and CLI. - [OpenSenseNova (GitHub)](https://github.com/OpenSenseNova): SenseNova model and skills repositories. ## Artifacts - Authentication profile: authentication/sensetime-authentication.yml - OAuth scopes: scopes/sensetime-scopes.yml - Well-known discovery: well-known/sensetime-well-known.yml - Packages / SDKs: packages/sensetime-packages.yml - CLI: cli/sensetime-cli.yml - API conventions: conventions/sensetime-conventions.yml - Domain security: security/sensetime-domain-security.yml ## Company - [SenseTime](https://www.sensetime.com): Company site. - [Pricing / Token Plan](https://www.sensenova.cn/en/token-plan) - [Login / Console](https://platform.sensenova.cn/en/console)