PATEO, a leader in automotive intelligence, and SenseTime, an artificial intelligence giant, announced a comprehensive strategic partnership on October 8, 2025, to integrate large AI models into intelligent cockpits. This collaboration includes joint investments and planning in humanoid robots and cockpit-driving integration, marking a pivotal moment in China's intelligent connected vehicle industry as it shifts to an AI-driven era.
PATEO and SenseTime form strategic partnership for AI in intelligent cockpits.
Developing "Qinggan Large Model" based on SenseNova for personalized experiences.
Creating platform-level AI Agent for entertainment, services, communication, and navigation.
Extending to humanoid robots with SenseTime's visual perception and PATEO's hardware expertise.
Focusing on cockpit-driving integration, vehicle-road coordination, and global expansion.
Aiming to reshape mobility with AI chip, cloud, and real-time response capabilities.
Intelligent cockpits are advancing toward emotional and personalized experiences, moving beyond functional integration. PATEO, with its expertise in hardware engineering and automotive-grade solutions, partners with SenseTime to customize the "Qinggan Large Model" using domestic open-source architectures and SenseTime's SenseNova. This model forms a complete technological loop, introducing the industry's first platform-level AI Agent that unifies digital entertainment, local services, communication, collaboration, and mobility navigation. The result is a shift from stacked features to scenario-based intelligent services.
Supported by AIDC infrastructure and self-developed AI chips, the partnership deploys high-performance servers to enhance interaction interfaces, active safety care, personalized interactions, and scenario intelligence. An efficient mechanism for "device-side large models" ensures millisecond-level responses, continuous iteration, and a hybrid intelligent connected vehicle platform integrating AI chips and cloud services.
In humanoid robotics, SenseTime's visual perception algorithms will develop the "brain" and "visual system," enabling environmental adaptation and interaction. PATEO contributes hardware design, underlying operating systems, chip integration, and mass production experience to build the "body" and "neural network," ensuring reliability and safety. Together, they aim to create a flexible, intelligent general-purpose humanoid robot platform for applications in intelligent cockpit services and vehicle maintenance, driving transformation in the robotics industry.
The collaboration extends to full-stack solutions for cockpit-driving integration, vehicle-road coordination, and overseas expansion. In cockpit-driving, it fuses driving decisions with cockpit experiences, using AIGC for personalized scenarios and unified human-vehicle-environment interactions. For vehicle-road coordination, large AI models analyze V2X data in real time to optimize traffic and routes via cloud-edge platforms. Overseas, PATEO's international brand experience and SenseTime's localized support will globalize China's intelligent connectivity technology.
This partnership represents a comprehensive deployment from intelligent cockpits to robotics and single-vehicle intelligence to vehicle-road coordination, establishing a new paradigm for "AI + Automobile" integrated development.
PATEO is a leader in automotive intelligence, providing full-chain solutions from underlying software to cloud services for intelligent connected vehicles.
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