Xpeng’s L03 is the first Chinese EV to put proprietary AI driving chips in a mass-market car

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Xpeng launched the L03 across 65 markets with its own Turing AI chips and second-generation VLA driving system on every trim.

Xpeng debuted the L03 on Wednesday in Munich, launching its most internationally ambitious electric vehicle simultaneously across 65 markets. The coupe-SUV is built around the company’s proprietary Turing AI chips, with every trim shipping at least one and the top Ultra variant carrying three for a combined 2,250 trillion operations per second. It is the first consumer vehicle from a Chinese automaker where every configuration ships with in-house autonomous driving silicon as standard.

The chips power Xpeng’s second-generation VLA system, a vision-language-action model that the company describes as a physical-world foundation model for interpreting road environments and choosing driving responses. The system remains a driver-assistance feature, not full autonomy, and Xpeng plans to activate it progressively in Europe starting in 2027. The L03 is also the first vehicle...

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