Introduction

Greetings everyone! Just as the Snake Year Spring Festival drew to a close, the DeepSeek wave swept through the automotive industry, igniting a fierce storm in the realm of automotive intelligence and automation.

Within a mere 24 hours, Lunan and Geely announced their deep integration with DeepSeek, showcasing a breathtaking pace of advancement.

Today, Unmanned Vehicles Are Coming (public account: Unmanned Vehicles Are Coming) delves into the extraordinary 'superpowers' of DeepSeek that have captivated the automotive industry.

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"DeepSeek: The 'In-Vehicle Transformation' of Autonomous Driving, Even Tesla Calls It a Pro?")

I. DeepSeek: The Catalyst for Change in the Automotive Industry

During the Spring Festival, DeepSeek's performance was truly remarkable, with downloads surging by 375% in just seven days, catapulting it to the top of the free charts on both Chinese and American App Stores. Its performance rivals that of the OpenAI GPT-o1 model, earning it widespread acclaim in the AI community.

DeepSeek's appeal to the automotive industry stems primarily from two "magic tools".

1. Open-source + Efficiency: The 'Master Key' to Transformation

DeepSeek adheres to the MIT License open-source agreement, essentially providing automakers with a master key that allows them to freely enter and exit the realm of automotive intelligence development, innovating as they see fit.

Moreover, it boasts low performance overhead and training costs, offering timely assistance to OEMs lacking the capacity to fully develop in-vehicle large models.

Geely and Lunan have taken the lead in partnering with DeepSeek.

Geely utilizes the DeepSeek R1 model to conduct distillation training on its Xingrui vehicle control FunctionCall large model and the vehicle's active interaction end-side large model. The integrated AI system becomes highly intelligent, capable of accurately understanding users' quirky and ambiguous intentions, invoking approximately 2000 in-vehicle interfaces, and proactively analyzing users' potential needs based on both internal and external vehicle scenarios, thereby providing services such as vehicle control, active dialogue, and after-sales support, elevating the intelligent interaction experience to new heights.

Lunan is not to be outdone, with its intelligent cockpit deeply integrated with DeepSeek. On February 14th, it will initiate DeepSeek's universal knowledge distillation training.

Subsequently, Lunan Zhiyin's "Xiaoyao Cockpit" will feature impressive functionalities such as AI multi-semantic command recognition, AI poetry creation, AI drawing, AI couplets, AI chatting, and real-time AI information retrieval. The response speed, accuracy, and scalability of the in-vehicle AI will be significantly enhanced.

Through model distillation, Lunan can optimize the in-vehicle intelligent experience, achieve rapid technology iteration, and reduce development and usage costs, achieving multiple objectives simultaneously.

2. Excellent Performance and High Cost-effectiveness: The 'Powerful Engine' of Change

The DeepSeek R1 large model excels in reasoning ability and training methods.

In multiple benchmark tests, it outperforms OpenAI's o1 model, yet its price is a fraction of theirs, maximizing cost-effectiveness.

It employs long-chain reasoning technology, capable of decomposing complex problems step-by-step and solving them through multi-step logical reasoning. It also supports model distillation, enabling developers to transfer its reasoning ability to smaller models to meet diverse scenario needs.

Such an exceptional large model serves as a powerful engine for the transformation of automotive intelligence and automation, making it irresistible to automakers.

II. 'Folk Experts' Eager to Experience: Initial Signs of Change

Beyond the official moves of automakers, a group of 'folk experts' is equally excited.

Many car owners are eager to use DeepSeek on their infotainment systems and have resorted to various methods to get the full-featured DeepSeek onboard early.

Car owners of NIO, Ledao, Tesla, and other vehicles that support browsers can quickly access the large model by adding a DeepSeek web tab to the infotainment system and then using the built-in voice input method to interact with it.

Simply by sitting in the car and speaking, DeepSeek can compose a poem or draw a picture for you, offering an incredibly cool experience.

However, operating the keyboard or infotainment system while driving poses a certain degree of risk, so we eagerly anticipate automakers' prompt support to enable safer and more convenient usage.

III. The Path of Large Models Onboard Vehicles: Navigating Challenges

Although DeepSeek has sparked enthusiasm in the automotive industry, the path of large models onboard vehicles is not without obstacles.

Operations such as distillation and quantization are essential but may affect the model's overall performance.

Distillation models transfer the knowledge of large 'teacher' models to smaller 'student' models, reducing complexity but involving a more complex training process that requires more time and resources.

Quantization models reduce storage requirements and computational complexity, accelerating the reasoning process but potentially compromising some performance.

Therefore, the DeepSeek deployed by automakers on the vehicle side is likely to be a lightweight model after distillation and quantization, while the full-featured DeepSeek resides in the cloud.

However, as automotive cockpits increasingly prioritize intelligence, DeepSeek, as an open-source model, may carve out a new path in automotive intelligence and automation with the collective efforts of the open-source community.

In the future, we may witness more automakers joining DeepSeek's circle, heralding a new era of automotive intelligence and automation.

In summary, Unmanned Vehicles Are Coming (public account: Unmanned Vehicles Are Coming) believes that the emergence of the DeepSeek wave marks the dawn of a new era in automotive intelligence and automation. Let's observe how DeepSeek will spark an even greater wave of intelligence in the automotive industry!

Hey everyone, what new changes do you anticipate DeepSeek bringing to automobiles? We welcome your comments and discussions in the comment section.