Industry First! Lightyear And Li Auto Launch Mass-Produced Vehicle, Running City NOA on 128TOPS Single-Chip

On January 21st, QCraft officially announced that the industry's first urban NOA solution based on a single Horizon Journey 6M chip has achieved mass production and vehicle integration. The first model to be equipped with this solution is the upgraded intelligent version of the Li Auto L series with AD Pro. This solution, spearheaded by Li Auto and jointly developed with QCraft, is specifically designed for urban mobility. It utilizes 128TOPS of computing power to deliver a superior urban NOA experience, with continuously evolving algorithms and all-weather perception capabilities, providing family users with "safe and reliable" intelligent safety. QCraft also becomes the first autonomous driving company in the industry to achieve urban NOA based on a single Journey 6M chip and complete large-scale mass production and delivery.

Lightyear, the industry's first urban NOA solution based on a single Journey 6M, has been mass-produced and installed in the Ideal L-series Smart Renewal Edition AD Pro model.

This mass production solution is based on QCraft's industry-first safety end-to-end large model, fully covering urban scenarios for users' daily commutes. Through deep optimization of software and hardware synergy, this solution achieves ultimate utilization of single-chip computing power, offering superior safety and traffic efficiency under the same configuration. It sets a new benchmark for family urban assisted driving with "ultimate single-chip, 'leapfrog' experience," contributing to the widespread adoption of advanced assisted driving.

Dr. Yu Qian, Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Lightyear, stated, "Lightyear was the first in the industry to identify the path for a single chip to enable urban NOA (Navigation on Autopilot) and successfully achieved extreme efficiency in its implementation. Lightyear's single Journey 6M urban NOA solution, with 128 TOPS of computing power, delivers an excellent advanced driver-assistance experience, truly embodying 'ultimate utilization of computing power.' We have worked closely with Li Auto to jointly establish a new paradigm for next-generation assisted driving development."

Secure End-to-End Large Models, Safe and Trustworthy

Based on Lightyear's philosophy of "Safety First, Steady and Far-Reaching," this solution features a secure end-to-end large model, endowing it with human-like defensive driving capabilities to safeguard driving safety throughout the journey. When encountering high-frequency risk scenarios such as unlit T-junctions and narrow roads with mixed pedestrian and vehicle traffic, the system can proactively anticipate and decelerate defensively, avoiding aggressive maneuvers and maintaining ample safety margins, providing protection from driving to parking.

(Anthropomorphized defensive driving capabilities can avoid sudden situations)

The safe end-to-end large model integrates the "spatiotemporal joint planning" experience validated by Light Chariot's mass production, and through a safety alignment mechanism, ensures that the driving trajectories planned by the end-to-end model comply with human-defined safety mechanisms. This effectively enhances the overall performance and interpretability of the model, achieving higher upper limits and greater flexibility, as well as higher lower limits and enhanced safety. Thanks to the fusion of lidar and vision, this solution exhibits excellent safety performance even in nighttime scenarios.

It is worth mentioning that the safety model is deeply integrated with the cockpit's central control HMI, allowing users to see the system's decision-making logic in real-time. This enables users to intuitively understand why the system "decelerates, detours, or waits," moving away from the traditional end-to-end "black box decision-making" mode, making safety decisions fully transparent and driving more understandable.

Comprehensive coverage of users' daily travel scenarios, making driving more efficient and the experience more comfortable.

Adhering to a pragmatic value proposition of "not aiming to be operable everywhere, but striving for optimal operability where it can be," this solution focuses on comprehensively covering users' daily urban travel scenarios, encompassing all types of public roads, including national highways, provincial roads, urban arterial roads, and rural lanes. It effortlessly handles complex road topologies such as forks, Y-intersections, and sharp turns, as well as tasks like left turns, right turns, and going straight, while also achieving more efficient driving and a more comfortable experience.

(Comprehensively covering users' daily urban travel scenarios)

In terms of driving efficiency, for high-frequency scenarios such as starting at a red light and urban cruising, the system can automatically adjust its pace according to the road environment, avoiding delays that affect traffic efficiency due to slow reactions, and also not increasing risks due to aggressive strategies, thus bringing a "just right" sense of rhythm. In terms of ride comfort, when facing scenarios such as temporary stops and detours, pedestrians crossing, and large vehicle avoidance, the system's action planning is coherent and smooth, avoiding frequent sudden braking, hesitation, or repeated acceleration and deceleration, thus bringing a "graceful" sense of comfort.

Accelerating the implementation of "Single Journey 6M" and promoting autonomous driving for everyone.

Achieving the industry's first mass production and delivery of city NOA (Navigate on Autopilot) powered by a single Journey 6M chip demonstrates Lightyear's comprehensive capabilities in large-scale production, as well as its optimized software-hardware synergy. Thanks to the high cost-effectiveness of the Journey 6 platform, this solution can be widely adapted to various vehicle price points in the future, breaking down the price barrier for advanced driver assistance systems. This will allow more users to enjoy safe and user-friendly urban assisted driving experiences, accelerating the move towards a new stage of "intelligent driving democratization."