On June 5, at the 2026 Qualcomm Automotive Technology and Collaboration Summit, Li Bin, the founder of NIO, stated that car companies must transform into AI companies, and smart cockpits also need to be upgraded to AI cockpits. He believes that AI will reconstruct the cockpit experience and lead smart cockpits into the era of cognition. Li Bin emphasized that the core experience of future smart cockpits will be fully Agent-oriented. Currently, NIO's smart cockpits are moving towards this goal, with some functions already applied.
