On October 20, the 2026 Chery Global Innovation Conference (CGIC 2026) was held at the Chery Global Innovation Center in Wuhu, Anhui. With the theme "Change — Reconstructing a Better World with AI, Bringing Life Back to Life," the conference marked a milestone in Chery's leap from a traditional automaker to an AI-driven global intelligent technology company. The conference focused on releasing 11 major core technology clusters: Robotaxi, V2G + Xunlong Instant Charging, eVTOL, chips, CheryMind, CHERY AWE Full-Dimensional World Engine, solid-state batteries, Lingxi 8D Intelligent Sensing Cockpit, solar car + atmospheric water harvesting, native 48V low-voltage electrical system, and intelligent driving units, presenting a panoramic view of Chery's systematic thinking about future mobility and future life. The conference attracted more than 3,000 guests from home and abroad, including over 1,300 international guests, covering academicians and experts, representatives of leading global enterprises, domestic and international media, global dealers, suppliers, and global user representatives, who together witnessed Chery's innovation achievements in serving the world.
This conference broke away from the traditional framework of automotive technology exhibition and, centered on the "four freedoms" of mobility, energy, food, and life, transformed abstract technology into tangible, visible, and perceptible future life scenarios, conveying Chery's technological value of "creating maximum value for human freedom." Chery adheres to technology for good and upholds the R&D bottom line of being "insatiably greedy for technology and timid as a mouse about safety," hoping to bring AI out of the laboratory and transform technological change into life improvements that ordinary people can perceive.
Debuting the CheryMind vertical foundational large model to build a solid foundation for the physical AI industry
At this conference, Chery officially released CheryMind, a vertical foundational large model born specifically for physical AI. It integrates the knowledge, engineering data, and scenario experience accumulated by the company over many years into a unified technology foundation and achieves software-hardware synergy with Ziwei chips, supporting diverse applications such as automobiles and robots, transforming long-term industry accumulation into intelligent capabilities that can evolve sustainably and be reused across scenarios.
CheryMind relies on 700TB of enterprise knowledge, 200PB of engineering data, and tens of millions of R&D documents, while also integrating 25 million segments of coach-level driving data and 5 million segments of robot motion capture data. It possesses core physical AI capabilities such as multimodal understanding, coding, reasoning, planning, and engineering invocation. At present, the model has been deeply embedded in enterprise operations, connecting 400+ enterprise systems, covering 200+ business scenarios, implementing 1,500+ end-to-end business processes, with more than 60,000 employee uses per day on average. The model builds a dual vertical matrix for the enterprise side and the product side: on the enterprise side, it creates vertical models for CAD, quality, manufacturing, and enterprise Agents, covering the full chain of R&D, manufacturing, supply chain, and marketing services; on the product side, it implements vertical models for intelligent cockpit, intelligent driving, vehicle-side intelligence, flight control, and agricultural machinery OS, supporting scenarios such as intelligent cockpits, high-level intelligent driving, eVTOL, robots, and intelligent agricultural machinery, achieving continuous return of industry knowledge and continuous iterative evolution of the model.
Reconstructing a full-scenario ecosystem with AI, unlocking future life through four freedoms
In terms of freedom of mobility, Chery is building a three-dimensional intelligent mobility system spanning land, sea, and air. The industry's first globally native front-installed Robotaxi made its debut, featuring five native characteristics: native architecture, native front installation, native experience, native operations, and native globalization. Equipped with a six-layer safety system, it is planned to achieve 100,000 vehicles in global operation by 2030. The CHERY AWE Full-Dimensional World Engine builds an intelligent driving closed loop with "one world model + three subdivided models." The scenario-building model establishes 700,000+ general scenarios, 300,000+ high-risk scenarios, and 20,000+ extreme scenarios; the perception-semantics model enables multimodal semantic understanding; and the decision-planning model drives intelligent driving from passive hazard avoidance to proactive risk prediction. Falcon Intelligent Driving covers regulatory access in more than 130 countries and regions and has obtained multiple authoritative certifications. Falcon 500/700/900 form a product echelon ranging from urban navigation to L3-level high-level intelligent driving. The Lingxi 8D Intelligent Sensing Cockpit relies on the AIOS full-domain architecture to connect the five major domains of chassis, cockpit, body, intelligent driving, and powertrain, achieving millisecond-level cross-domain response and creating a full-sensory immersive experience across eight dimensions: hearing, vision, smell, motion, touch, emotion, health, and social interaction. The native 48V low-voltage electrical system and four-in-one intelligent driving unit revolutionize the traditional chassis architecture and enhance vehicle safety, handling, and agility. In the low-altitude field, the Lingxiao eVTOL has achieved breakthroughs, with the two-seat Q212 compound-wing manned model and the five-seat J506 full-tilt six-rotor model, promoting the implementation of three-dimensional airspace mobility.
In terms of energy freedom, Chery has built a full-chain zero-carbon system covering energy acquisition, transmission, storage, and application. Xunlong Instant Charging supports 1,500A ultra-fast charging, with a system power of 1.44MW and 500 kilometers of range from 5 minutes of charging; V2G vehicle-grid interaction supports peak shaving and valley filling, with users' estimated annual revenue exceeding 3,000 yuan. The plan is to build 20,000 V2G stations globally by 2029, with the first batch landing in Shanghai, Hefei, Guangzhou, and Wuhu; wireless charging supports up to 22kW, with transmission efficiency ≥92%. On the energy storage side, Rhino batteries balance high rate capability, long cycle life, and 1,500km long range; all-solid-state battery cells have an energy density of 400Wh/kg and support a wide temperature range of -40°C to 100°C, with a pilot line planned for completion in 2027. At the same time, supporting technologies such as household solar-storage-charging systems, ammonia-fuel SOFC power generation products, and solar cars + atmospheric water harvesting enable zero-carbon applications in multiple scenarios such as vehicles, factories, and data centers.
In terms of food freedom, Chery is transferring automotive electrification and AI capabilities to the agricultural sector, building intelligent agricultural machinery to upgrade from manual driving to autonomous machine operation. The platform covers new energy power levels from 25 to 260hp, adopts a unified 540V high-voltage platform, achieves operation precision ≤2.5cm, and has accumulated automated operation verification of more than 1 million mu-times. Measured energy consumption, maintenance costs, and carbon emissions have dropped significantly, while per-capita operation efficiency has increased substantially. Chery proposes its 2035 vision: agricultural robots serving more than 1 billion mu of global farmland, helping increase grain output by more than 60 billion jin.
In terms of freedom of life, Chery is building an embodied intelligent robot system based on technologies derived from automobiles, laying out 31 innovative application laboratories in six major fields. Its product matrix covers more than 100 scenarios such as public services and livelihood care. Moja robots have already gone overseas to 60 countries, with shipments exceeding 2,000 units. The conference created an immersive Chery Future City, with "A Day in the Life of a Future Citizen" as the main thread, linking real-scene experiences such as Robotaxi, eVTOL, energy replenishment, intelligent agricultural machinery, and robots, allowing guests to immersively experience future lifestyles.
Clarifying the Yaoguang 2035 Strategy, accelerating transformation into a global intelligent technology company
At the milestone of its 30th anniversary, Chery used this conference to clarify the Yaoguang 2035 Strategy, insisting on turning the blade inward and using AI to complete the reorganization of the company's genes. Internally, it promotes the comprehensive AIization of R&D, manufacturing, supply chain, and service operations; externally, it reuses general automotive technologies in fields such as robots, Robotaxi, and agricultural machinery, opening technology platforms, application scenarios, and industrialization capabilities to global partners, upgrading from a product manufacturer to an ecosystem organizer.
In the past five years, Chery's cumulative R&D investment has exceeded 110 billion yuan, and it has built 313 Yaoguang laboratories, accumulating five major core technology systems: Mars Architecture, Kunpeng Powertrain, Lingxi Intelligent Cockpit, Falcon Intelligent Driving, and Galaxy Ecosystem. Relying on the "1+7+N" global R&D center network, it has more than 30,000 R&D personnel and more than 10,000 master's and doctoral talents. Its business covers more than 130 countries and regions worldwide. Chinese-brand passenger vehicles have ranked first in exports for 23 consecutive years, and global new energy sales remain firmly in the TOP 5.
Facing 2035, Chery will continue to deepen global innovation, relying on its global R&D network to gather innovation resources, and through localized R&D, manufacturing, and services, promote the empowerment of global markets with intelligent technology, upgrading from automotive going global to technology going global, and participating in global industrial upgrading. In parallel with the conference, special events such as V2G project signing, the global launch of Mobao robots, green charity cycling, and the Global User Ecosystem Conference will also be held, joining hands with global partners to build an intelligent and low-carbon symbiotic ecosystem.
