Xpeng reveals navigation-free driving and L4 Robo cars, Volkswagen named first partnerhttps://carnewschina.com/2025/11/05/xpeng-reveals-navigation-free-driving-and-l4-robo-cars-volkswagen-named-first-partner/Xpeng officially introduced its second-generation VLA (Vision-Language-Action) model at the 2025 Xpeng Tech Day, announcing that it will be made open source for global commercial partners. VLA 2.0 forms the foundation for Xpeng’s next stage of intelligent mobility, covering vehicles, Robotaxi systems, robotics, and future flying cars.
The model runs on Alibaba Cloud’s large-scale computing cluster, which currently features 30,000 GPUs and is set to expand to 50,000–100,000 GPUs next year. It uses a 720-billion-parameter architecture and undergoes full-chain updates every five days. VLA 2.0 enables independent scenario reasoning, allowing vehicles to respond to real-world situations such as hand gestures or traffic light changes. The system can recognise pedestrian signals, stop in response to a wave, and anticipate green-light transitions.
Pilot rollout for pioneer users is scheduled for December 2025, with full deployment on Xpeng top-end ultra models, Xpeng P7 Ultra and Xpeng G9 Ultra, expected in the first quarter of 2026.
In addition, Xpeng’s self-developed Turing AI chip has been officially selected for use in Volkswagen vehicles. This marks the sixth collaboration between the two companies, following earlier joint work on electrical architecture systems and ultra-fast charging networks.