Last evening, XPENG Motors convened a press conference, which was graced by the presence of Chairman and CEO He Xiaopeng, along with Liu Xianming, the head of the General Intelligence Center. The focus of the conference was to deliberate on the technical prowess, deployment blueprints, and mid-to-long-term strategies for the second-generation Vision-Language-Action (VLA) system.
When delving into the disparity in autonomous driving capabilities between China and the United States, He Xiaopeng remarked that autonomous driving is a multifaceted contest encompassing hardware, software, engineering, and scalability. He acknowledged that both China and the U.S. currently stand at the forefront in this domain. Nevertheless, he underscored that the intricacy of Chinese roads is significantly higher—by an order of magnitude—than that of their U.S. counterparts. He further posited that only by surmounting these intricate driving scenarios can the second-generation VLA system attain global applicability.