Geely flexes its muscles: This is how AI should be used to build cars

Abstract: A new era of AI car manufacturing.

It seems that overnight, AI has changed the industry landscape. For tasks such as drawing, photo editing, and copywriting, one AI is enough.

Obviously, those industries are the first to be impacted by AI.

Looking back at the automotive industry, AI should not be able to handle such a complex process from R&D to manufacturing, right?

If you have such thoughts, it means that you are behind the times.

At present, the competition in the second half of new energy vehicles seems to have gradually evolved into a competition of intelligence . Only those who can be far ahead in intelligent technology can talk about leading brands and sales. Geely Auto has also decisively placed its chips on intelligent technology.

Recently, Geely Galaxy's new flagship SUV prototype "Galaxy Starship" made its global debut at the Beijing Auto Show. At the same time, Geely also demonstrated its self-developed AI digital chassis that can "automatically control the car to avoid danger", becoming the first automaker in the industry to have the full system capability of "using AI architecture to build AI cars".

It is reported that the "Galaxy Starship" uses the new generation of Thor electric hybrid, Galaxy 11-in-1 intelligent electric drive, AI smart speakers with panoramic surround sound, AI smart seats, Galaxy AI digital elves, AI digital chassis and other top technologies, integrating intelligent driving , big data, artificial intelligence and cloud computing .

1. Equip your car with a smart brain

One of the core features of Geely's new car is Geely's new generation of electronic and electrical architecture "GEA Global Intelligent New Energy Architecture". GEA has high flexibility and compatibility in five aspects: space design, intelligent energy, global safety, AI intelligence, and driving control performance. It can adapt to models with different market positioning and energy forms, such as pure electric, plug-in hybrid, extended range, and alcohol electric. Another major feature is its compatibility with battery technology, supporting multiple battery structures such as CTB or CTP, and covering a variety of models such as sedans, SUVs, and MPVs.

The GEA architecture uses AI technology, which is like installing a smart brain in the car. This brain collects information through various sensors on the car, such as how fast the car is running and how big the turning angle is. AI will also use its supercomputing power to quickly analyze this information and make the most appropriate instructions.

AI digital chassis is another highlight of Geely's AI car-making technology. The AI ​​digital chassis technology equipped with the GEA architecture supports a combination of multiple suspension forms. The high-speed computing power, understanding and decision-making power of AI technology enable Geely's AI digital chassis to perform integrated control of the vehicle body in the three directions of X, Y and Z, ensuring that the vehicle remains stable and controllable under various road conditions.

Geely said that through the perfect integration of the world's first AI big model and digital chassis, Geely Automobile took the lead in achieving the world's first unmanned drift.

This is a black technology that can greatly improve the safety of the entire vehicle. The AI ​​digital chassis can react in just 4 milliseconds, which is 25 times faster than the human limit. This means that in an emergency, the AI ​​digital chassis can react at a speed far exceeding that of humans, effectively avoiding various emergencies.

In addition, Geely also exhibited its technological achievements in smart travel and AI smart interaction, including high-speed and urban NOA, self-developed chips , satellite communications , MYVU AR glasses, AI mobile phones, and smart rings.

In addition, in order to support this series of AI capabilities, Geely has built an intelligent brain - Geely Xingrui Intelligent Computing Center . Currently, the total computing power of the intelligent computing center has been increased to 10.2 quadrillion times/second, ranking first in the industry.

Through this series of actions, Geely flexed its technological muscles, and it also marked Geely's official announcement of entering a new era of "AI car manufacturing."

2. AI can be better integrated with design

Another revelation to the industry from Geely's muscle show is that AI can be better integrated with car design. In fact, this is also the original meaning of "AI car manufacturing": AI car manufacturing does not mean that AI controls the production line, but uses AI algorithms to complete the design of auto parts.

Smart Electric vehicles In the second half, AI big models will be the core variable of intelligence, and original design will be the winning factor in the global market. Geely has already played its cards on the technical level and released the Geely Xingrui AI big model with full stack self-developed technology. In the latest GEA architecture released at the Beijing Auto Show, in addition to the new generation of Thor electric hybrid and 11-in-1 intelligent electric drive, AI, as Geely's strongest technical skill, has also been mentioned in the important position of GEA.

The Galaxy Starship based on GEA is a new work that integrates Geely's design and technology. It is also Geely's first answer to AI-based cars in terms of design. Geely uses AI as its technical foundation and builds space as the cornerstone to connect all intelligent experiences.

For example, AI smart seats. The flexibility of traditional cockpits is reflected in capacity and how to load them; the flexibility of AI cockpits is reflected in scenarios. Each seat is an independent experience. After rotation and translation, for example, you can hang out with the back row, connecting to new business and leisure scenarios. The switching of private/social attributes occurs with will and voice, rather than a fixed shape. This shows that AI is promoting cockpit flexibility and expanding from the spatial dimension to the temporal dimension.

AI also brings more freedom to soft furnishings. Geely has applied AI painting to generate visual models, automatically generating private customized wallpapers and personalized avatars in 3 seconds, which has been implemented on the E8. Galaxy Starship pushes AI to deep interaction. Virtual AI digital elves replace physical screens with optical waveguide AR display devices, allowing each position to have vivid three-dimensional interaction. AI digital elves are an integrated multimodal large model that supports language, text, pictures and video AIGC , and can be customized. Galaxy E8 will be OTA- installed in the second quarter.

In addition, there are AI smart speakers, AI smart chassis, etc. Geely, relying on its original design strength and technological breakthroughs, seizes the opportunity to lead the next round of design trends, and is also trying to explore new ways of travel in the AI ​​era by imagining the boundaries of scenes and experiences.

3. Vehicle intelligence is the final test

How can AI better serve the automotive industry? Many practitioners may have seriously thought about this question.

Perhaps, our "pattern" should be opened up: Nowadays, mainstream manufacturers have basically mastered the technology of smart cockpits, and the threshold for smart driving is not as high as before. For consumers, the novelty of these two selling points has actually passed, and smart large items are gradually becoming a new outlet.

Remember, the biggest highlight of Xiaopeng's first-generation G3 in 2018 was that it supported automatic parking in various parking spaces and remote control parking in and out, quickly demonstrating its differentiated advantages in the SUV market under 200,000 yuan.

When Ideal ONE and NIO ES8 were first released, their smart cockpits were indeed at the leading level in the market at the same price. New power brands have gradually seized the new energy market through new advantages in the fields of smart cockpits and smart driving. Today, smart cockpits and smart driving have become a must-win for car companies to expand their visibility, resulting in no obvious gap between traditional mainstream manufacturers and new forces.

Therefore, the intelligentization of the "big parts" of new energy vehicles has gradually attracted the attention of more and more manufacturers. Fuel vehicles have "three major parts", engine, gearbox and chassis, which are durable and worry-free; the powertrain and chassis composed of batteries, motors , and electronic controls on new energy vehicles are the core components that determine product performance and quality.

In terms of powertrain and chassis, new energy vehicles seem to be easier to make than fuel vehicles, especially in terms of chassis. Luxury brands seem to have only added more active shock absorbing technology, and have not used revolutionary suspension systems. In the domestic new energy camp, the U9 can continue to move forward even if it loses a wheel; the NIO ET9 can "shake off" the snow on the car through the silky height control of the left and right suspensions; the Zhiji L6 has innovative functions that break through the physical limits of vehicles, such as "crab-like" movement, through VMC technology... These functions are unimaginable on fuel vehicles.

The Yangwang U8 concept car directly reflects the intelligence of the powertrain. Without a brake system or steering column, the Yangwang U8 concept car can achieve serpentine slalom and braking actions with four independent motors.

The time is ripe for the development of intelligent large items . Leading enterprises such as BYD and Geely have provided new ideas for other manufacturers. The competition in the intelligent auto market has evolved from intelligent cockpits to intelligent driving, and then to intelligent "large items", and finally to the intelligent integration of various fields. To put it more deeply, the real value of intelligence is actually "equal rights", but the concept of technological equality runs counter to the demand for premium products of high-end models.