A General Motors bejelentette, hogy a mesterséges intelligencia és az új szoftveres architektúra használatával mintegy két évre csökkenti a járműfejlesztés idejét. A hagyományos 4-5 éves folyamat felgyorsításával a kínai autógyártók és a Tesla tempójával kívánják felvenni a versenyt. Az új modellek a korábbiaknál 40-szer nagyobb számítási kapacitást kapnak.
A fejlesztési folyamatok során a vállalat virtuálisan tesztelt több mint 300 000 akkumulátortervet az új lítium-mangán alapú technológiájához, mielőtt egyetlen fizikai prototípust is megépített volna. A GM több mint 100 évnyi gyártási és 30 évnyi OnStar adatra támaszkodva építi saját belső AI-eszközeit.
A cég emellett egy saját fejlesztésű OnStar AI-asszisztenst is kiad a következő hónapokban, amely a 2027-es Cadillac Lyriq modellekben debütál egy vezeték nélküli frissítéssel. A vállalat megerősítette azt a célját is, hogy 2028-ra bevezeti az autópályákon használható, felügyeletet nem igénylő önvezető technológiát.
Az eredeti szöveg (CNBC)
NEW YORK — General Motors plans to lean into artificial intelligence and vehicle software for future growth and development amid increasing competition abroad from Chinese automakers and a tougher U.S. market.
The Detroit automaker on Wednesday shared new details about a proprietary AI agent it's releasing under its OnStar brand, plans for a fourth generation of more efficient all-electric vehicles and a target to cut its vehicle development time in half.
GM also reconfirmed that by 2028, it wants to have eyes-off highway driving, or "personal autonomy," that will let drivers take their attention off the road. The automaker said that technology would start with the Cadillac Escalade IQ EV before rolling out to other, more high-volume models.
"All of these developments are building us the car of the future," CEO Mary Barra said Wednesday during an event laying out the plans, called "GM Forward," in downtown Manhattan.
The initiatives, which Barra, Chief Product Officer Sterling Anderson and other executives discussed at the event, are designed to streamline the automaker's operations, while also improving the capabilities of its vehicles for customers.
"Over the last 12 months, we've evolved how we design, engineer and build our vehicles," said Anderson, who led the event and who has been tasked with overseeing GM's latest technology transformation.
GM said it is now targeting a vehicle development time of roughly two years from concept to production versus a traditional four- to five-year cycle. However, the company did not detail a timeline for reaching that goal.
The event comes as Chinese automakers are growing outside of the U.S. with rapid development times of new technologies and vehicles. Consulting firm AlixPartners said it believes China is currently bringing vehicles to market twice as fast as traditional automakers, with 40% to 50% less investment and a 30% cost advantage.
GM also continues to play catch-up to U.S. EV leader Tesla when it comes to delivering technology advancements through over-the-air updates and automated driving capabilities.
Anderson, a former Tesla executive, declined to speak specifically about how GM's technologies will compare to the EV maker, but said GM's systems will be able to visualize, or see, more things through the use of multiple types of sensors than a strictly camera-based system, which Tesla uses.
He also said the rapid development and new software architecture will help the company better compete against Chinese automakers abroad.
"There's inherent virtue to speed," Anderson told CNBC during an interview after the event. "Not just in being able to get a car out faster, it's being able to develop a system that's far more performant that you could have otherwise."
GM said Wednesday it has major plans for its next generation of EVs and traditional vehicles with internal combustion engines.
The company said those coming vehicles — regardless of type — will have 40 times the computing power and up to 50% faster cellular connectivity than prior systems.
That computing power is expected to help the automaker with over-the-air updates, onboard diagnostics and AI, as well as other technologies such as automated driving features.
The new brain of the vehicle will launch on the $130,000 Cadillac Escalade IQ EV in 2028 before rolling out to other models, including its next generation of EVs.
GM said the forthcoming EVs are expected to be 25% more aerodynamic and 15% lighter and feature electric motors and battery packs that are more compact.
GM President Mark Reuss said despite lackluster consumer adoption and the automaker pulling back billions of dollars in investments in EVs, it remains committed to producing them.
"We continue to develop our future EVs and work to reduce battery costs," Reuss said during the event. "And when the U.S. market is ready for EVs in large numbers, we will be there for them."
GM expects to achieve such targets through the use of AI in resear
