On August 5, Santa Clara, California-based SoundHound AI, Inc. announced that its advanced voice assistant with integrated Generative AI, SoundHound Chat AI Automotive, has been rolled out to vehicles from three major automotive brands across North America. This significant integration brings state-of-the-art convers

On July 18, BMW Group announced the signing of a cooperation agreement between BMW Brilliance Automotive Limited and the People’s Government of Jianye District, Nanjing for the establishment of BMW (Nanjing) Information Technology Co., Ltd. (BMW IT), a wholly-owned subsidiary. The new company is one of BMW Group’s si

On July 16, a joint innovation center for large models established by FAW Group and Alibaba Group, also known as the 2053 AI Lab, was inaugurated. Based on Alibaba Group’s Qwen large model, FAW Group will develop a large model for the automotive industry and implement it in all application scenarios.
For this partner

According to multiple press releases dated July 16, Shanghai Cosme Automotive Technology Co., Ltd. (Cosme Tech), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chery Automobile Co., Ltd. (Chery), was established.
With a registered capital of CNY 80 million, Cosme Tech is engaged in areas such as R&D of automotive parts, R&D of mechani

On July 12, FAW Group signed an agreement on deepening strategic cooperation with Jilin University (JLU).
Under the agreement, focusing on key core technologies such as intelligent connected New Energy Vehicles, AI, new high-performance automotive materials, and vehicle-road-cloud-network-satellite synergy, the two p

On July 11, CARIAD announced that it is working on an AI-based tool, i.e., Predictive Maintenance, that helps detect future vehicle issues before they happen.
Using machine learning, the system analyzes vehicle data to spot signs of wear early. It compares the data to a healthy component using over 200 key indicators

On July 10, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said his artificial intelligence startup’s chatbot will be coming to Tesla vehicles in the next week.
“Grok is coming to Tesla vehicles very soon,” Musk posted on X. “Next week at the latest.”
Musk commented on the plan hours after presenting a new iteration of Grok via video livestrea

On July 8, BYD signed a cooperation framework agreement with The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) for the establishment of a joint embodied intelligence (EI) lab focusing on the frontier research of robotics and intelligent manufacturing.
The lab is located on the HKUST campus. In the coming yea

Black Sesame Technologies Co., Ltd.  (Black Sesame) launched technical cooperation with Baidu on the Ernie large model.
Based on Ernie, Black Sesame will develop an industry-leading in-vehicle reasoning engine to offer companies and developers a one-stop large model solution that is truly available, easy-to-use, and

On July 2, BMW launched "Factory Genius," an AI-powered maintenance assistant that speeds up troubleshooting by suggesting solutions within seconds, cutting down diagnosis time.
Similar to a search engine, the tool scans internal data sources such as manuals, fault reports, and shift logs that are updated daily for q

According to multiple press releases dated June 26, FAW Qixin Power (Changchun) Technology Co., Ltd. (FAW Qixin Power), an FAW Group wholly-owned subsidiary, was established.
With a registered capital of CNY 500 million, FAW Qixin Power is engaged in areas such as research and experimental development of engineering

Robert Bosch GmbH announced plans to invest more than EUR 2.5 billion in AI across its products and services by the end of 2027.
By leveraging a vast vehicle sensor database and generative AI, Bosch aims to significantly reduce development times and deploy more advance driver assistance systems. It uses AI in automat

Continental's wholly-owned subsidiary Elektrobit Automotive GmbH (Elektrobit) has signed a joint development agreement with Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) to co-develop EV.OS, a flexible and AI-centric software platform designed to accelerate the shift towards software-defined electric vehicles (SDVs).
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