- The new driver assistance system is powered by the capabilities of Xiaomi's latest XLA large language model.
- Xiaomi has integrated assisted driving with embodied robotics technology for the first time to enhance the vehicle's decision-making capabilities.
Xiaomi's upcoming updated SU7 electric sedan will feature more powerful assisted driving capabilities to improve performance in complex traffic scenarios, the company's founder, chairman, and CEO Lei Jun said in a Weibo post published on Wednesday.
The new generation model, scheduled to be officially launched on March 19, will feature an assisted driving system driven by the all-new XLA cognitive large language model as standard across its entire lineup.
This upgrade marks the first time Xiaomi has bridged the two originally independent and complex artificial intelligence tasks of assisted driving and embodied robotics, Lei said, without elaborating further.
By introducing multi-modal information input and integrating an in-house developed foundation model, the updated SU7 can demonstrate more controllable and human-like decision-making, he added.
The updated SU7 began pre-sales on January 7 with a starting pre-sales price of RMB 229,900 ($33,400), an increase of RMB 14,000, or 6.48%, compared to its predecessor's starting price of RMB 215,900.
However, due to the conventions of the Chinese EV industry, the official launch price of a new model is usually lower than its pre-sales price.
Over the past two years, Xiaomi's smart driving team has released three major version updates for its driver assistance system, something that many of its peers take five years to achieve, Lei said.
Compared to the current model, the updated SU7 has received highly significant hardware upgrades in terms of assisted driving.
The updated SU7 comes standard across the lineup with LiDAR, a computing platform with 700 TOPS of computing power, and 4D millimeter-wave radars.
In February 2025, Xiaomi began rolling out the Xiaomi HAD (Hyper Autonomous Driving) assisted driving feature, based on end-to-end technology, to all eligible vehicles, and has since made the free use of this feature one of the vehicle's key selling points.
At the end of July last year, Xiaomi HAD was upgraded to a version trained on 10 million clips, bringing a significant improvement in assisted driving capabilities.
On November 21, 2025, the first day of the 2025 Guangzhou Auto Show, Xiaomi released the enhanced version of Xiaomi HAD, introducing reinforcement learning and world models on top of the 10-million-clip version.
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