Vice President of Corporate Finance and BW Projects, Xpeng
Search every verified Charles Zhang interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In September 2023, Charles Zhang discussed the launch of Xpeng's city-level Navigation Guided Pilot (NGP), which he described as capable of handling complex urban driving scenarios. He stated that this launch, combined with the company's existing highway NGP and valet parking assist, brought Xpeng "one step closer to the full autonomy." Regarding U.S. restrictions on AI chip exports to China, Zhang said the export license requirement applied to chips used for deep learning training on the server and cloud side, not to chips used in the vehicles themselves. He stated that Xpeng had built a private cloud with Alibaba Cloud for deep learning training and that its computing power needs for the next two to three years were "basically secured." Zhang also noted that Xpeng had a long-term partnership with Nvidia and was launching the G9 model equipped with Nvidia's chip.
“I think having these technology capability to cover all these scenarios I think we're one step closer to the full autonomy.”
“So far I think for us we have built a private Cloud for the Deep learning training purposes together with Ali Cloud, basically our computing power required for the Deep learning training in the next two or three years that's basically secured.”
“I think U.S government recently added one export license for one of the important AI chip for buying video so it is designed to do the conductor deep learning training in the server and at the cloud side.”
“The export license required is for the chip on the server side to the deep learning training not on the car itself, and so I think for the AI chip used in our EVs and other EVs in the U.S. companies it is for the civilian use so I think right now we don't see any risk of the restriction.”
“We have long-term partnership with Nvidia, we have been one of the first users reporting videos and we're on Wednesday launching our G9 that will be equipped with Nvidia's chip.”
Charles Zhang of XPeng Motors discusses the outlook and challenges for the company after it launched a city-level NGP ...
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