Volkswagen Reveals New In-House AI-Powered Self-Driving Tech

 

It’s all part of the Group’s “In China, For China” strategy, whereby it leans on local expertise to bring more focused products to the market more quickly.

The full-stack solution has been developed by Carizon, a joint venture between VW’s software division Cariad and Beijing’s Horizon Robotics, and has been trained by a new AI-powered platform called GAIA.

According to the auto giant, the tech will officially debut in a new Volkswagen-branded EV later this year, before being integrated into a series of affordable electric models based on the China-specific Compact Main Platform from 2026 onwards.





That’s reflected by the fact that the JV was only fully established in November 2023. Over the past 18 months, more than 500 engineers in Beijing and Shanghai have worked on the new ADAS tech, resulting in the solution’s speedy development.

Key to this has been GAIA, Carizon’s proprietary AI-driven platform for intelligent data collection and analysis. With two terabytes of data collected per vehicle per day and more than 62,137 miles of test driving daily, GAIA enables highly automated AI training of the vehicle software.

But it’s the speed that GAIA operates at that is particularly impressive. Compared with conventional platforms it is claimed to accelerate data analysis six-fold, with the verification cycles of AI solutions reduced massively, to one-twentieth of their original duration.

The ADAS itself is described as Level 2+, which essentially mirrors what is available in the United States from the likes of Tesla’s Autopilot and Ford’s Blue Cruise, and that is what will be introduced to the market later this year.

But Marcus Hafkemeyer, CEO of Carizon, promised: “Level 2++ ADAS with Urban Navigate on Autopilot (NoA) is in advanced testing and will be launched in 2026. This will also enable us to lay the technological foundations for a fast-track evolution towards Level 3.”

“With our new ADAS system, we are demonstrating what is possible when the strengths of Volkswagen are combined with local innovation,” said Ralf Brandstätter, CEO of Volkswagen Group China. “The system has been developed at ‘China speed’, fully tailored to the needs of our Chinese customers and will set a new benchmark in the market for driving performance, safety and quality.”

Somewhat ironically, the arrival of the new solution comes at a time when the Chinese authorities are cracking down on how driver assistance tech is marketed, tested and updated, amid fears that consumers may be unclear about its capabilities and that regulations are not being rigorously adhered to.


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