Huawei launches new brand Qiankun to kick off the first year of large-scale commercial use of intelligent driving

[Beijing, China, April 24, 2024] On the eve of the 2024 (18th) Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, Huawei's Intelligent Automotive Solutions Conference was held. Huawei Qiankun, a new intelligent automotive solution brand with intelligent driving as the core, was released on site, bringing new and upgraded solutions such as "Qiankun ADS", "Qiankun Car Control", and "Qiankun Car Cloud". In addition, the new generation of Hongmeng cockpit has evolved again, bringing innovative technologies such as Qianwu Engine, Qiankun Audio, and the strongest in-vehicle ecosystem.

Jin Yuzhi, CEO of Huawei Intelligent Automotive Solutions BU, mentioned at the press conference that Huawei launched the Qiankun Intelligent Automotive Solution, aiming to bring intelligence into every car and lead the second century of global automotive transformation.

Debuting with strength in the name of Qiankun

Huawei is committed to becoming an incremental component supplier for intelligent connected vehicles and helping automakers build better cars. Since the establishment of Huawei's Intelligent Automotive Solutions BU in 2019, the cumulative R&D investment has exceeded 30 billion yuan, with 7,000 R&D personnel. It is currently in a period of rapid growth. In 2023, the shipment of intelligent components has exceeded 3 million sets, 7 strategic cooperation models have been launched, and more than 300 upstream and downstream partners in the industry chain have been developed.

2024 is the first year of large-scale commercial use of intelligent driving. Huawei has launched a new brand "Qiankun" with intelligent driving as its core, integrating Huawei's more than 30 years of technological accumulation and experience in the ICT field to develop the most powerful automotive intelligent core.

Qian means "the strength of the sky and the constant self-improvement", leading the future with the kinetic energy of upward growth; Kun means "the top of Kunlun", standing between heaven and earth and striving for the future. "Qiankun" means to break through the sky upwards and lead the industry. To take root downwards and master hard-core technology. "Qiankun" and "Hongmeng Cockpit" are the two core brands of Huawei's intelligent car solutions.

Qiankun ADS 3.0 brings advanced intelligent driving from dream to reality

Qiankun ADS 3.0 has achieved a leap forward from simple "obstacle identification" to deep "understanding of driving scenarios" based on the GOD (General Obstacle Recognition) network, thus comprehensively improving the safety and driving experience of intelligent driving. In addition, Qiankun ADS 3.0's new architecture uses the PDP (Predictive Decision Control) network to realize pre-decision-making and planning in one network, thereby achieving human-like decision-making and planning, making the driving trajectory more human-like, the traffic efficiency higher, and the passing rate of complex intersections >96%.

Relying on the powerful foundation capabilities of Huawei Cloud, rapid iteration of capabilities is achieved. The computing power has reached 3.5E FLOPS, the amount of training data has reached 30 million kilometers per day, a 3-fold increase in half a year, and the model is iterated every 5 days.

At the same time, Qiankun ADS 3.0 has taken active safety a step further. The newly upgraded omnidirectional collision avoidance system CAS 3.0 continues to enhance the forward active safety capability and further enhances ESA (Emergency Steering Assist). In the scenario where the AEB (Automatic Emergency Braking) braking distance is insufficient, the system automatically performs emergency steering to avoid obstacles without the need for a person to turn the steering wheel first. Lateral active safety also supports more scenarios, such as supporting diagonal and cross-crossing vehicles, bicycles and electric vehicles; and supports more flexible avoidance space.

Qiankun ADS 3.0 is the industry's first to launch the NCA function of intelligent driving from parking space to parking space, realizing full-scene connection from public roads to campus roads, and from campus ground to underground parking spaces, bringing users an unprecedented convenient experience.

In terms of smart parking, Qiankun ADS 3.0 further supports the "get-away" function. After arriving at the destination and selecting the target parking space, the driver can get off the car and leave immediately, and the vehicle will park automatically without waiting. At the same time, the parking chauffeur service has been commercialized in all scenarios, and the parking chauffeur pioneer plan has been launched, which will support 100 commercial parking lots and 2,000 community and office parking lots by the end of 2024.

In addition to the high-end Qiankun ADS 3.0 version, Qiankun ADS also launched the ADS SE version, which supports easy high-speed driving and basic intelligent parking capabilities that allow parking as soon as the vehicle is visible, allowing more users to enjoy the equal rights of technology and the inclusive smart driving experience.

Qiankun Automotive Control accelerates the development of intelligent vehicle architecture

Qiankun Vehicle Control has launched the Qiankun iDVP 2.0 intelligent vehicle digital platform, Qiankun vehicle control module and XMOTION 2.0 body motion collaborative control system, which will realize personalized experience, service-oriented software and centralized architecture, injecting new vitality into the development of smart cars.

Among them, Qiankun iDVP 2.0 intelligent car digital platform, with its excellent high-performance modules, supports car companies to flexibly customize applications on the platform to meet diverse needs. As the world's first five-in-one car control SOC, Qiankun's car control module leads the new trend of car control technology with its high integration, high performance, low latency, high reliability and high safety. The newly upgraded XMOTION 2.0 body motion collaborative control system, by supporting the 6D vehicle motion control algorithm, has achieved a significant improvement in driving performance, bringing users a more excellent driving experience.

Qiankun Car Cloud 3.0 The ultimate experience and considerate service throughout the entire cycle

The Qiankun Smart Car Cloud Service 3.0 released this time covers major application scenarios from user car preparation, boarding, use, parking, and maintenance. Smart car cloud service not only provides the ultimate experience of mobile phone-car interactive applications such as digital key, remote control, and cloud view, but also provides active protection and efficient services for the smart components of the whole vehicle, while protecting data security and user privacy, so that consumers can feel more at ease while enjoying smart services.

This time, Smart Car Cloud Service 3.0 has newly released 6 innovative services and applications, including Qiankun Yunque large model, Xingshan digital key, Qiankun Yunkan (remote viewing of real-time images from the vehicle's external camera via mobile phone), Qiankun Yunxi (user-defined welcome light), DVFdiff OTA efficient differential algorithm and Internet of Vehicles security cloud service.

The new generation of Hongmeng cockpit has been fully upgraded and the experience has taken another step forward

Intelligence is the gene of Hongmeng, and it is also the unremitting pursuit of Hongmeng cockpit. The new generation of Hongmeng cockpit brings a comprehensive upgrade of audio-visual senses, achieving another leap in experience.

The new generation of Qianwu engine is installed in the car for the first time, helping voice recognition, identifying the location of each passenger through the user's voiceprint, sensing and recording personal preferences, and realizing personalized services. Qianwu understands cars, with a full vehicle knowledge map, and accurately solves user problems. In addition, Qianwu engine can also provide cross-device services, helping the car computer to directly navigate to the location sent by the mobile phone, truly providing one-stop service.

The brand-new Qiankun audio system has created a new track for smart audio systems. The most luxurious Extraordinary series released this time brings more shocking and intelligent sound quality, the first sound-with-picture technology, and the use of AI sound and picture analysis technology and AI spatial sound technology. It can automatically remix 3D sound in the cabin according to the picture to achieve an immersive audio-visual experience. The newly upgraded smart sound field experience realizes independent sound zones for the front and rear seats, so that karaoke in the front row and movies in the back row do not interfere with each other.

At the same time, Huawei's in-car smart screen brings high-dynamic natural light display technology, allowing the picture to be not overexposed in bright areas and have high-definition display with details in dark areas, opening a new era of full-scene smart screen display. In addition, the original intelligent super-resolution technology can adaptively enhance the image quality of the screen, converting 480p low-definition video into 960p high-definition video, and converting 720p medium-definition video into 2K ultra-high-definition video. It is truly achieved that there is no need to worry about the source of the film. In addition, the Hongmeng cockpit uses the Qiankun XSCENE light field screen, which has the characteristics of large format, immersion, relief of motion sickness, and relief of visual fatigue. It has won the world's only in-car display low motion sickness gold label, German Rhine TÜV Rheinland low blue light eye protection certification, and the 2024 SID China Display Industry Award (CDIA) Best Innovation Display Gold Award.

Qiankun has made up his mind and wisdom must be acted upon

Huawei's intelligent vehicle solutions business will continue to be customer-centric and focus on intelligent vehicle components. In 2024, cooperative models equipped with Huawei Qiankun intelligent vehicle solutions will be launched one after another, including Dongfeng, Changan, GAC, BAIC, Seres, Chery and JAC.

With Huawei's continued investment and innovation in the field of smart cars, I believe that more car companies will join Huawei's partner camp in the future. Together, we win the future.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.