Li Auto is drawing a line in the sand. At its Livis Day software and embodied intelligence launch on June 15, the Beijing-based automaker unveiled two self-developed foundation models — Mahe Mind-Pro and Mahe Mind-Edge — and made a bold claim: its autonomous driving system Mahe VLA will match Tesla FSD V14 capability by Q4 this year, with a major new version arriving as early as Q3.
The hardware backbone is formidable: dual Nvidia M100 chips delivering 2,560 TOPS of computing power, with model parameters up 10x and computation up 15x versus previous generations. The demo footage — showing the vehicle navigating a narrow, wet alleyway with pedestrians at night (labeled "丝滑侧行") — was genuinely impressive.
But CEO Li Xiang went further, arguing that today's smartphones and smart cars are not truly intelligent — they remain "function-driven", not living intelligent entities. His framework for genuine automotive intelligence has three pillars: safety (must protect humans better than humans can), capability (learn all human skills, then execute tasks independently), and efficiency (do it faster than humans). Ambitious words from a CEO whose company has already cracked the Chinese extended-range BEV market. Now he wants to crack autonomy too.
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