As we all know, among the new energy car companies, Xiaopeng Motors' intelligent driving strength is very strong, but now in the face of Xiaomi Automobile, the traffic king with intelligent driving as the highlight of publicity, Xiaopeng Motors also seems to be difficult not to be vigilant. On the evening of May 20, in the 520 AI DAY event of Xiaopeng Motors, for the competition between Xiaopeng and Xiaomi Automobile, He Xiaopeng, chairman and CEO of Xiaopeng Motors, said that the new energy automobile industry has been tempered from the blue ocean to the red ocean and then to the sea of blood.
He stressed that selling well now does not mean that the ability is strong, and the automobile industry is a long-term competition, rather than a short-term sales volume of one or two months. At the same time, He Xiaopeng said that the past decade was the era of new energy vehicles, and looking forward to the next ten years, he foresees that this will be the era of intelligent driving cars.
Xpeng Motors has opened the era of AI intelligent driving
At present, China's auto market is undergoing a transformation from the new energy era to the intelligent era, and AI technology is the leader of this wave of technological change. AI technology will subvert the original evolutionary iteration speed and iteration method of smart cars, by learning human intelligence, imitating human thinking and decision-making logic, replacing the traditional manual handwritten algorithm rule iteration, and entering the AI era of accelerated evolution of smart cars in an end-to-end data-driven algorithm iteration way.
For Xpeng Motors, AI intelligent driving cars have three core characteristics, namely active learning, rapid growth, and thousands of people. The core of this is to improve the understanding, perception and data decision-making capabilities of complex scenarios by feeding data and training AI models with unlimited rules. At present, Xpeng Motors already has the core algorithm research and development capabilities of perception, positioning, planning, and decision-making, as well as the data processing and analysis capabilities of the vehicle end and the cloud, which can realize the rapid iteration of algorithms based on actual data, and continuously provide users with higher-level autonomous driving capabilities through OTA.
In terms of intelligent driving, Xpeng Motors released the first end-to-end large model in China that was mass-produced and put on the car: neural network XNet + regulatory control model XPlanner + large language model XBrain. The industry believes that this technological innovation may mark another important step in the field of intelligent driving, in which the vehicle can directly control the output based on the input of the sensor, and the training content is upgraded from pictures to videos.
He Xiaopeng, founder and CEO of Xpeng Motors, gave a detailed introduction to the technology at the press conference. He said that the design goal of this end-to-end large model is to complete iterations every two days, and the intelligent driving capability is expected to be improved by 30 times in 18 months. He further revealed that by the third quarter of 2024, Xpeng aims to achieve autonomous driving capabilities in every street in the country.
It is reported that the end-to-end large model can significantly improve the performance indicators of intelligent driving. Specifically, it can triple the ability to drive intelligently, increase the sensing distance by a corresponding amount, and be able to recognize more than 50 types of objects. In addition, the model identifies waiting areas and tidal lanes, reads street sign text, and infers the intentions of traffic participants. In complex driving scenarios, such as stuttering, stuck, and the need for a safe takeover, it is expected to be reduced by nearly 50%.
He Xiaopeng also boldly predicted that with this technological breakthrough, Xpeng Motors is expected to achieve a L4-level intelligent driving experience in China by 2025. This undoubtedly paints an exciting blueprint for the future of intelligent driving.
The AI Dimensity system is the first step in the era of AI intelligent driving
The AI Dimensity system, which was fully pushed at this press conference, is another pioneer position of Xpeng Motors in the field of AI technology application. Yu Tong, head of intelligent experience at Xpeng Motors, said that the AI Dimensity system is the industry's first operating system that comprehensively applies AI technology to intelligent cockpit and intelligent driving, and its advancement ensures that users can "use it for a long time without lag". After the upgrade, the average frame rate, first-frame handedness, and touch response speed of the AI Dimensity system have all increased by more than 30%, and the application launch speed has increased by 50%. In the public beta of users, the satisfaction rate of the AI Dimensity system is as high as more than 97%.
After the full access to the AI model, the AI Dimensity system will provide users with more intelligent and exclusive in-vehicle AI assistant services through the three core functions of AI P, AI driver, and AI bodyguard, so as to achieve a safer and more comfortable driving experience for both intelligent and human driving.
In terms of intelligent cockpit, Xpeng Motors will launch the industry's first "global large language model", which will deeply integrate the reasoning capabilities of AI large language models into all scenarios of car use, and provide users with an intimate in-vehicle assistant AI small P that can actively perceive and reason about their needs by linking the in-car perception system and the outside environment.
Based on the in-depth application of AI large language models, the new AI P-will have a higher level of understanding and demand reasoning capabilities. For example, if P-P agrees to set up the cockpit with just one sentence, such as "When I drive past here, please remind me to pay attention to the speed" or "I'll take a nap and wake me up in 20 minutes", AI P-P can provide accurate service. P's reasoning can gain insight into the emotional needs of the user through his feelings, and he can understand whether the user needs to turn on the air conditioner with the sentence "I'm a little cold".
The privately customized AI driver has three powerful functions: AI driving, AI parking, and AI bodyguard, which comprehensively covers the whole scene including driving and parking, so that the vehicle can gain insight into the external environment, provide real-time information for the driver, and ensure the safety and convenience of driving.
While Volkswagen is still discussing the "feasibility" of autonomous driving, Xpeng Motors has set its sights on the future of "personalized experience", and the world's first AI driving is the first step for Xpeng Intelligent Driving to move towards "private customization" and thousands of people.
AI driving is also the industry's first mass-produced "point-to-point" ultra-long memory pilot intelligent driving. Based on the powerful self-learning ability, the system can generate customized driving routes with only one learning time, providing users with an intelligent assisted driving experience covering the whole process. A single user can store up to 10 memorized routes, each with a maximum of 100km. AI driving has been able to achieve "0 takeover and 0 degradation of commuting routes", and truly achieve an intelligent driving experience comparable to that of human driving.
In addition, in the face of parking problems such as narrow parking spaces, Xpeng Motors also released the world's first mass-produced remote-free exit parking & welcome out of the garage function - AI parking, which can easily achieve fully automatic parking out of the car and multi-scene high-speed parking, which can be parked by 3 times, the parking speed is increased by 50%, and complex and tricky parking spaces such as side orientation and broken head position can also be put in place. With the mobile APP, it can also pause and continue to complete the vehicle parking at any time, so that users can park "how fast and saving" they can park.
Through the forward-looking layout of AI intelligent driving vehicles, Xpeng Motors shows the market and users the experience disruption, technological innovation and efficiency improvement brought by AI intelligent driving vehicles. Xpeng Motors has always firmly believed that technological innovation is the driving force behind the intelligent transformation and innovation of the automotive industry. In the future, Xpeng Motors will establish a more complete full-link AI technology system to bring more users a highly intelligent travel experience.