Haomo DriveGPT has now completed model building and validation of the first phase of data, with parameters comparable in scale to GPT-2.

Haomo is the former autonomous driving division of Great Wall Motor and became an independent company in November 2019.

The company unveiled MANA OASIS, China's largest autonomous driving computing center to date, with a total computing power of 670 PFLOPS, at its seventh AI Day event on January 5.

MANA OASIS can complete large model training with trillions of parameters at 100 times more training efficiency, the company said at the time.

Gu mentioned that the autonomous driving 1.0 era was hardware-driven, 2.0 era was software-driven and 3.0 era will be data-driven.

"With abundant data and computing power enabled by MANA OASIS, Haomo's product capability will be even stronger, steering the company into the era of autonomous driving 3.0," Gu said at the last AI Day event.

In addition to Haomo, another Chinese company that is bringing AI capabilities to the autonomous driving scene is Jidu, the car-building arm of Baidu.

Jidu announced on February 14 that it will leverage Baidu's ChatGPT-like product, ERNIE Bot, to create a large-model AI interaction experience for smart car scenarios that will support natural communication for robot cars.

Haomo builds China's largest self-driving computing center, taking arms race to new level