Recently, Xing Yue, CSO of Banma, led a delegation to visit China EV100 for high-level dialogue with Zhang Yongwei, President of GREEM and Chairman of China EV100, and his team. The discussion centered on Automotive Intelligence. Both sides agreed that the automotive industry is undergoing a fundamental shift from intelligent vehicles to automotive intelligence. Vehicles are no longer just carriers with AI functions, but embodied AI terminals with perception, comprehension, decision-making and service capabilities.
Banma outlined its roadmap for this transition, considering AI is no longer an add-on for cockpits or ADAS rather redefining the vehicle as a unified intelligent entity. At its core lies a multimodal large model (processing vision, voice, and user intent) powering a native AI Operating System (AIOS). Banma is pursuing its “AI in All” strategy—rebuilding its OS, creating a full-stack AI system for intelligent cockpits, integrating cockpit and ADAS functions, and developing a cross-domain intelligent system.
Zhang Yongwei commended Banma’s strategic upgrade. He noted that by leveraging Alibaba’s leading capabilities in AI and large models, cloud computing, computing infrastructure, and full-domain ecological service integration, combined with Banma’s professional capabilities in intelligent vehicle OS, AI infrastructure, OEMs, supply chain collaboration, and international and standardization layout, the company will further gain the trust of automakers. He suggested that Banma engage early in vehicle development and integrate into automakers’ entire R&D, manufacturing and service chains, with OS and AI as the key to create a closed loop of data, algorithms and application scenarios. By formulating unified intelligent interface standards, it can promote the reusability of cockpit and autonomous driving capabilities, sharing of computing resources and collaborative training of AI models. Meanwhile, the company could shift from technology output to value creation and truly evolve into a partner that co-defines automotive intelligence with automakers.
Both sides agreed reached a consensus on the next steps to launch an authoritative mechanism, Automotive AI Progress Report, to clarify the industry’s development direction and build consensus around the “AI-first” principle.
About Banma
Banma is a Shanghai-based leader in automotive OS and AI. It is founded in 2015 in Xuhui District, a hub for AI innovation. With over 1,000 employees—more than 80% in R&D—the company operates wholly-owned subsidiaries in Hangzhou, Beijing, Hefei, Wuhan, and Chongqing. Its shareholders include Alibaba, SAIC, FAW, SDIC Fund, Shanghai International Group, China Life, and YF Capital.
Banma is committed to becoming a world-leading provider of automotive OS and AI technologies. As the only third-party supplier integrating system-level solutions, full-stack end-to-end AI technical services and vehicle platform services, it has built a smart mobile space with vehicle as the core carrier.
