Overview
- At the Beijing Auto Show on Friday, partners put Huawei’s stack into new cars, with Mengshi debuting the M817 Ultimate with ADS 5 and an 896‑line lidar, SAIC‑GM‑Wuling setting May 8 for the Huajing S with ADS Pro and planned OTA to ADS 5 Pro, and Hongqi confirming the first batch of H9 sedans with ADS 5.
- Following Thursday’s QianKun Tech Conference, Huawei detailed 2026 smart‑driving R&D spend of over 18 billion yuan and said its compute for autonomous development has jumped from 2.8 EFLOPS in 2023 to 60 EFLOPS.
- ADS 5 adds a WEWA 2.0 AI agent architecture, a new low‑latency QianKun OS, a six‑dimensional collision‑avoidance system called CAS 5.0, and support for higher‑resolution sensing such as 896‑line lidar and upgraded AR‑HUD displays.
- HarmonySpace 6 updates the cabin with an AI assistant backed by a larger on‑device model, multi‑modal occupant sensing for safety alerts, and new projection and lighting modules designed for clearer in‑car visuals.
- Rivals moved in parallel as Alibaba Cloud said major brands will integrate its Qianwen assistant for tasks like ordering and payments in the car, and Volcano Engine unveiled an agentic AI suite and reported its model runs in more than 7 million vehicles across over 50 brands and 145 models.