In an interview on May 7, Li Xiang, CEO of Li Auto, disclosed that the open sourcing of DeepSeek has drastically accelerated the development of language capabilities for the VLA driver's large model. This move has resulted in a time savings of nearly nine months and cost reductions amounting to hundreds of millions of yuan. Despite these substantial gains, Li Auto has opted to significantly amplify its investment, deploying a quantity of training cards for the base model that surpasses initial projections by a factor of three. The focus remains on developing proprietary models tailored to meet the demands of diverse scenarios.
