Haomo unveiled three ADAS kits priced as low as $410 and not relying on high-definition maps to capitalize on the opportunity presented by smart driving features that will cover the vast majority of new cars over the next two years.

Haomo also unveiled progress made by DriveGPT at today's event, hoping to use artificial intelligence (AI) big models to accelerate the process of making autonomous driving systems more like human drivers.

Haomo officially launched DriveGPT on April 11, calling it the first generative foundation model of autonomous driving that will reshape the technological path of automotive intelligence.

GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer), is essentially solving for the probability of the next word appearing, with each call sampling and generating a word from a probability distribution. After ChatGPT sparked an AI frenzy earlier this year, GPT has become a center of attention in the AI and autonomous driving space.

The goal of DriveGPT is to realize end-to-end autonomous driving, and at this stage it is mainly used to solve the cognitive decision-making problem of autonomous driving, Haomo CEO Gu Weihao said in April.

To date, DriveGPT has screened out 10 billion frames of Internet images and 4.8 million pieces of autonomous driving 4D clips including data on human driving behavior about 200 days after its release, Gu said today.

(Haomo CEO Gu Weihao speaks at the October 11 AI Day event. Image credit: Haomo)

DriveGPT's overall perception ability has been enhanced to recognize everything from words, pictures, and videos, according to Gu.

Gu believes that future autonomous driving systems will have the same ability to accurately perceive and measure three-dimensional space as human drivers, thus truly realizing full autonomy.

DriveGPT is capable of modeling the real world into three dimensions, plus time series to form a 4D vector space, according to Gu.

On top of the 4D perception of the real world, Haomo introduces open-source visual text large models, thus allowing the machine to achieve the same ability to recognize everything as a human, according to Gu.

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Haomo's self-driving ambitions leap forward with launch of DriveGPT