On December 25th, Ideal AI Talk officially began. This time, Ideal is not talking about smart cars, but focusing on AI and sharing. Li Xiang regards artificial intelligence as the "everything of the future" and believes that the emergence of big models will fundamentally change humanity. He also reveals the latest progress in intelligent driving and the application of artificial intelligence technology in Ideal Automobile.
Does he really understand AI when transitioning from a CEO of a car company to a CEO of an artificial intelligence company? What will the ideal car with AI look like in the future? This is a question from the outside world about Li Xiang and Ideal Automobile. Through this event, Li Xiang and Ideal Automobile provided answers to the current stage.
Building an artificial intelligence enterprise does not mean not building cars. Li Xiang said that car manufacturing must be done, electrification is the first half, and intelligence is the second half. Li Xiang believes that intelligence is not about traditional software intelligence, but about true artificial intelligence. This is a necessary path for the continuation of car manufacturing. Cars will evolve from industrial transportation tools to space robots in the era of artificial intelligence.
In January 2023, Li Xiang announced internally that he wanted to become a globally leading artificial intelligence enterprise, just two months after the birth of ChatGPT. Li Xiang said, it's not following the trend. Li Xiang further revealed that in September 2022, Ideal Auto had already identified artificial intelligence as a truly important direction and recognized it as the key to future competition.
When we released our strategy (vision) at the beginning of 2023, we made a fundamental change by transforming artificial intelligence from a hidden strategy to an open and strategic one, in order to attract enough talent.
Li Xiang does not believe that building an artificial intelligence enterprise is a "bigger story". Data shows that Ideal Auto invests over 5 billion yuan in artificial intelligence research and development within a year, nearly half of its overall R&D investment.
The large investment also brings continuous innovation, and Ideal Auto has a self-developed base model. Taking end-to-end and VLM visual language models as examples, Ideal Automobile was the earliest in the world to be developed from the initial paper to technology research, and finally to research and product delivery. We are not only doing intelligent driving, we also have intelligent commerce and intelligent industry, that's what we are really doing. Li Xiang said, 'My biggest feeling when big models appear is that humanity will undergo fundamental changes.'.
Li Xiang firmly believes that big models will definitely make human society better. The Internet has realized equal rights of information, and AI has started to help everyone realize equal rights of knowledge cognition and ability. Next, we will integrate the physical world and the digital world through artificial intelligence, allowing limited space to achieve infinite extension. What does AI mean for ideals? For this issue, Li Xiang believes that in brand vision, it means everything for the future.
Recently, Li Xiang was discovered by netizens to have purchased a Ferrari. Ferrari is not AI or autonomous driving, why buy it? Li Xiang replied, 'I think experience is very important to me because experience is itself, just like a part of my pre training. I can only see how it is done through experience, and through my own experience, it can become my cognition and ability.'.
Li Xiang revealed, "By 2030, there may be a 50% chance that we will make a very interesting supercar, but it will definitely be an AI powered sports car