VOYAH to adopt Baidu’s ERNIE Bot onto vehicles

Beijing (Gasgoo)- On February 15, Baidu Apollo announced that Dongfeng Motor’s premium new energy vehicle brand VOYAH has officially became one of the first automakers to integrate Baidu’s ChatGPT-like ERNIE Bot onto its vehicles. 

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Leveraging the full capabilities of Baidu Apollo fused with ERNIE Bot, VOYAH will collaborate with Baidu to create large-scale AI interactions under intelligent automotive scenarios, ushering in a new era of strong artificial intelligence experiences in the automotive industry. 

The cooperation with Baidu in intelligent AI technology granted VOYAH priority access to the tech giant’s AI technology. It also signifies the first implementation of conversational language model technology in China’s automotive smart cockpit field.

ERNIE Bot, based on Baidu's Wenxin large-scale model technology, is a generative dialogue product. With over a decade of experience in artificial intelligence, Baidu possesses industrial-level knowledge-enhancing ERNIE model with deep semantic understanding and generative capabilities across multiple modalities and languages. In addition, ERNIE Bot will fully access to Baidu's intelligent cloud, enabling VOYAH to call upon the service through the cloud.

Notably, according to photos recently released by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, an "apollo Tech" logo appears on the rear trunk of the new and upgraded VOYAH FREE SUV model, indicating that the new VOYAH FREE is expected to adopt Baidu's Apollo intelligent driving assistance system as an add-on feature.