- Baidu predicts that by 2026, the market penetration rate of smart car models with L2+ level advanced intelligent driving solutions, valet parking, highway navigation pilots, and city navigation pilots will exceed 15%.
- Baidu Apollo City Driving Max is upgraded with “lightweight HD maps”, which are 80% lighter than traditional HD maps.
- Baidu’s Apollo Highway Driving Pro will be deployed on Black Sesame Semiconductor’s Huashan II A1000 chip computing platform and will be officially released in the third quarter of this year.
Beijing, April 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU and HKEX: 9888) (“Baidu” or the “Company”), a leading AI company with a strong internet infrastructure, today announced its automotive intelligence conference on the eve of Auto Shanghai. has been held. 2023. During the conference, Baidu released a series of new products covering intelligent driving, intelligent cabin and intelligent maps. In addition, Baidu introduced his four new key features for automakers in the newly released “Baidu Apollo Self Driving Openness White Paper”.
Rob Chu, Corporate Vice President of Baidu and GM of Apollo Self Driving, speaks at Baidu’s Automotive Intelligence Conference.
At the meeting Rob Chu, Baidu Corporate Vice President and GM of Apollo Self Driving, and founder and CEO of Black Sesame Semiconductor, Shan Jizhang, announced that Black Sesame Semiconductor will become the latest chip partner of Baidu Apollo Smart Driving. In addition, Apollo Highway Driving Pro will be deployed on Black Sesame’s Huashan II A1000 chip computing platform, which will be officially released in the third quarter of this year. This partnership marks a deeper collaboration between China’s smart driving solutions and China’s smarthi chipsets, further accelerating the manufacturing of automobile smarthi. Chinese automotive industry.
The automotive industry is going through a period of fundamental change. Baidu predicts that by 2026, the market penetration rate of models with L2+ advanced intelligent driving solutions, valet parking highway navigation pilots, and city navigation pilots will exceed 15%, ushering in a transition period for the intelligent vehicle industry. increase.
“As intelligent cars become more prevalent in 2026, new customers will be less likely to consider cars without intelligent driving features. Jennie LeeSenior Corporate Vice President of Baidu, President of Intelligent Driving Business Group. Rob ChuBaidu’s corporate vice president and GM of Apollo Self Driving explains:
Upgraded Intelligent Driving Solution Helps Automakers Build Smarter Cars
Baidu Apollo unveiled its flagship intelligent driving solution. Apollo City Driving Max, with dual Nvidia Orin X with 508 TOPS computing power.this is the only solution China It provides users with a consistent experience on city roads using pure visual perception. The current product definition also includes his LIDAR, which achieves true perceptual redundancy of “pure visual + LIDAR”. The product uses “Lightweight High HD Maps” that are nearly 80% “lighter” than traditional HD maps, enabling rapid city generalization at a more reasonable cost.
Baidu’s integrated auto-navigation and valet parking solution Apollo Highway Driving Pro We have also completed an algorithm platform upgrade. The latest single TDA4-VH platform uses 50% less AI and CPU computing power compared to the previous TDA4-VH platform. It is expected to enable more intelligent driving and parking functions with low computing power and low cost. Baidu Apollo and Voyah, an EV manufacturer backed by DONGFENG Motor, announced that Voyah FREE, an all-electric plug-in hybrid five-seater SUV, will be equipped with Apollo Highway Driving Pro. Highway Navigation Pilot, City Autopilot and efficient parking in all scenarios.
In addition, Baidu Apollo has also upgraded its automatic parking solution. Apollo parking lotwhich has a success rate of more than 99% in the top five most commonly faced parking scenarios, and takes only 28 seconds to complete vertical parking, greatly reducing parking difficulty for novice drivers.
Baidu Apollo currently offers two flagships. Intelligent cabin solution: Apollo’s DuerOS and Apollo’s Duer Assistant. DuerOS can be quickly installed for mass production as a whole packaged solution. Duer assistant based on big model localization can achieve full-time full-duplex 100ms level response, through which automobile companies can define and realize cutting-edge intelligent cabin experience. At the same time, ERNIE Bot, a large-scale language model previously introduced by Baidu, was opened to invite testing. Baidu is actively seeking to use the capabilities of ERNIE Big Model to reconstruct the relationship between users and smart cabins during travel, and create new experiences for AI smart cabins.
As for smart maps, Baidu Apollo has upgraded its in-vehicle navigation maps with different levels of quality, performance and real-time data. The newly released shared autonomous map offers a new human-vehicle interface and increases user confidence in smart driving solutions. At the same time, Baidu’s HD maps have been upgraded to OneMap, which can quickly update map data in real time.
Baidu creatively integrated agile development with the traditional V model and later ASPICE®, passed ASPICE® CL3 organization-level assessment certification, and became the first Tier-1 solution provider in the industry to achieve two deep integrations became. Certified by an authoritative body. This means that Baidu has an industry-leading project delivery process management organization and can consistently provide OEMs with high-quality products and services.
Baidu Apollo’s automotive intelligent solutions have been mass-produced in 134 models of 31 automobile brands, with a cumulative total of over 7 million units, leading the Tier 1 sector.
Unlocking four key capabilities to accelerate the construction of a new automotive manufacturing supply chain for the intelligent car era
The era of smart cars not only requires intelligent product upgrades, but also challenges established relationship models between traditional vehicles and suppliers. This is a whole new industrial revolution for both technology and automotive companies. Compared to traditional systems based on mechanical parts, intelligent systems are hardware-based, algorithmic software-driven, large-scale dynamic systems of exponential complexity.
Baidu Apollo has released “Baidu Apollo Self Driving Openness White Paper”.“announced four key features. Open Experience Definition, Open Independent Experience Evolution, Open Full-Cycle OTA Services, and Co-Creation with Open Automotive Manufacturing Partners. Baidu’s goal is to help its automotive manufacturing partners achieve leadership and commercial success in intelligent driving while ensuring a high-quality end-user experience.
The four open features can be summarized as follows.
In the Pre SOP phase, Baidu Apollo will open up the human-machine interaction interface, core function SDK and underlying soft interface in the form of API and SOA services, allowing automobile companies to define the human-machine interaction interface and intelligent driving style. allow it to be implemented. With its own brand positioning and target audience, it also participates in the technical aspects of smart driving controls that enhance the end-user experience.
After delivering the SOP, Baidu Apollo can provide automakers with a closed-loop cloud of smart driving data and a supporting tool chain. This will allow us to build a closed loop of data after the launch of a new model, allowing us to independently implement data-driven smart driving experience improvements, giving us greater control and winning in smart racing. Become.
In the long term (for example, three years) after the SOP, if automobile companies want their models to continue to enjoy the features and experience of Baidu Apollo’s leading product line of intelligent driving products, Baidu Apollo will also provide corresponding solutions. We guarantee the quality of the model’s smart driving features in the form of quarterly OTAs.
At the same time, Baidu Apollo will provide technical support and training to auto companies’ product, R&D and delivery teams, and work with these teams to set up a joint product committee to jointly build a more complete intelligent driving ecosystem. increase.
“Automakers and Tier-1 intelligence car solution providers must adhere to the first principles mentality. With the goal of providing consumers with a safe, secure, intelligent experience and real benefits, we are constantly returning to the starting point. , Build a new cooperation model.,” said Rob Chuquoting a famous saying, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with others. Chinese Automotive Intelligence, We Must Be Open and Collaborativee.
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