en.Wedoany.com Reported - On the opening day of the 2025 Beijing Auto Show on April 24, BMW officially unveiled a cabin AI agent customized based on Alibaba's AI capabilities. Leveraging the Qwen large model as a foundation and utilizing Banma's Smart YuanShen AI, BMW launched its AI cabin agent, marking a leap from merely "understanding commands" to "taking action". This signifies that the collaboration between BMW and Alibaba has officially entered a new phase of AI agent integration. The long-wheelbase BMW iX3 will be the first model to feature this technology, followed by the new BMW 7 Series. The partnership between BMW and Alibaba began in 2015, evolving from early IoT-based home-to-car connectivity to the deep integration of AI large models and smart cabins over the past decade.
Unlike traditional in-car voice assistants limited by semantic understanding and task execution, BMW has introduced three AI agents customized for the Chinese market based on the Qwen large model: "Driving Expert", "Travel Companion", and "Encyclopedia Expert", covering scenario demands such as vehicle usage, travel, and knowledge queries. Among them, "Travel Companion" is positioned as a smart trip planner. The Qwen large model acts as the intelligent decision-making brain in the cloud, seamlessly cooperating with Amap's auto agent both locally and in the cloud. Leveraging tens of millions of POIs and vast spatiotemporal geographic data, it supports users in expressing compound travel demands in natural language and instantly generates personalized itinerary plans. For example, when a user says, "Find a mall within 3 kilometers, equipped with Yi'anqi charging piles, preferably with highly rated restaurants and a good environment, then take me to Daxing Airport after lunch for a 4 PM flight," the AI agent can accurately break down the multiple intentions and output a complete solution covering distance, charging, dining, and route planning in one go. "Driving Expert" integrates a database of over 200,000 BMW-specific usage knowledge items, offering professional insights comparable to that of a real technical consultant.
The large-scale deployment of these innovative experiences relies on the full-stack AI capability support from Alibaba. Infrastructure: Alibaba Cloud builds a secure, stable, and efficient computing and service base to ensure millisecond-level responses from the model in complex scenarios. Model Layer: The Qwen large model, through the Alibaba Cloud Bailian platform, equips vehicles with natural language understanding, knowledge reasoning, and complex task execution capabilities. Scenario Product Layer: Banma's Smart YuanShen AI seamlessly integrates the above capabilities, enabling the vehicle to leap from "intent understanding" to "task execution" based on dynamic physical world information. Alibaba Cloud provides a complete end-plus-cloud collaboration architecture: an edge-deployed Qwen-Omni full-modality large model perceives the physical world, ensures privacy security, and responds quickly and operates stably even in weak network environments; in the cloud, Qwen connects to the digital world, accurately breaks down intentions for complex tasks, and calls upon corresponding Alibaba ecosystem services—users can complete tasks such as ordering food, shopping, navigating, and making payments inside the car with a single command.
Integrating the large model into vehicles has become a key agenda item for the automotive industry in 2026. On the opening day of the Beijing Auto Show, over ten leading automakers, including Changan, Dongfeng, BAIC, BYD, Geely, GWM, Li Auto, SAIC Volkswagen, and SAIC IM Motors, announced the integration of Qwen on the same day. In March, FAW Hongqi announced its groundbreaking inclusion of the Qwen agent in the industry for the first time, integrating into the "Lingxi Cabin." The Hongqi HS6 PHEV will be the first to feature this integration “break ... out of the Qwen agent for spatial breakthroughs? Overall, tens of thousands of consumer installations," in which the cabin enables a closed-loop service of multi-fuzzy intention recognition and complex route planning. Cai Ming, Chief Product Officer of Banma Smart, previously stated publicly that 65% of mainstream automakers have chosen YuanShen AI. Alibaba Cloud, in collaboration with Banma and 10 automakers, has announced the integration of the Qwen agent into vehicles, further completing the "model + agent + ecosystem" full-stack AI capability for smart cabins.
The cabin AI agent launched by BMW is equipped on the new generation long-wheelbase BMW iX3. This model also made its global debut at the BMW Brand Night event on April 21. Details on components and the BMW Brand Night details predict dynamic, planned orders for the agency: The long-wheelbase models available feature new generators built production platforms, running inside with testing procedures this all leading. It is scheduled to be officially launched in the fourth quarter of this year. Both long-wheelbase models are built on the new-age platform (New Cluster or Neue Klasse of syncing intelligent design) performance capabilities: They come standard with the BMW Super Brain central computing unit and the Dynamic Performance Control system, integrating an 800V high-voltage architecture and the sixth-generation BMW eDrive electric drive technology. Under CLTC conditions, the long-wheelbase iX3 achieves a range exceeding 900 kilometers, while the long-wheelbase i3 exceeds 1,000 kilometers. 70% of the source code for the Chinese version of the BMW New-age Operating System X is developed and optimized by the Chinese R&D team. The in-cabin AI personal assistant is developed based on the Alibaba AI large language model and DeepSeek technology, while also supporting phone-as-key functions and HiCar interconnectivity based on Huawei HarmonyOS NEXT. For smart driving, BMW has jointly developed end-to-end AI with a localized large model in collaboration with Momenta, achieving L2+ level "point-to-point" full-scenario coverage in city driving on highways and parking.
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