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Tencent pushes wider adoption of AI-powered smart mobility system from a vehicle’s cockpit to the factory floor
- Tencent sees its smart mobility solution helping industry partners in vehicle research and development, manufacturing and even customer services
- The Chinese tech giant already counts more than 100 carmakers and various automotive industry players as partners
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Ben Jiangin Beijing
Tencent Holdings is pushing for the wide adoption of its smart mobility solutions, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), to help speed up the manufacture of next-generation smart cars in the world’s largest electric vehicle (EV) market.
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Senior executives of the Shenzhen-based technology behemoth on Wednesday took the wraps off this initiative at an event in Beijing, where they touted the advantages of having its mobility solution backed by the firm’s own large language model (LLM) – the technology used to train generative AI services like ChatGPT – to not only enhance in-vehicle experience, but help provide efficiencies across the automotive sector’s supply chain.
“We have been exploring cutting-edge technologies, including AI and LLM, with industry partners,” Tencent senior executive vice-president Dowson Tong, who is also chief executive of the company’s Cloud and Smart Industries Group, said in his keynote speech at the event.
That collaboration includes potential adoption of those technologies as well as cloud computing and online mapping services “across various business scenarios”, with an eye to supporting the upgrade of the industry’s supply chain, Tong said.
Tencent’s latest push shows the potential new opportunities on the mainland’s vast auto market, where major EV makers are currently caught in an escalating price war and autonomous-driving system developers struggle to make gains in advancing a future of self-driving cars.
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