Qwen Enters the Hongqi Car AI Assistant, Starting to Work in the Cabin

March 26th news: Alibaba's AI assistant Qwen has been integrated into the smart cockpit of Hongqi cars, accelerating its entry into the physical world. This is the latest step for Qwen to expand into more complex in-vehicle scenarios, following AI glasses, moving towards a full-scenario AI assistant.

It is reported that Qwen will be launched on the Hongqi HS6 PHEV. Soon, Hongqi car users will be able to complete multiple tasks with just one sentence. For example, "Hello Qwen, first go to Peking University, find a convenient and delicious duck restaurant along the way at noon, and I need to arrive at T3 Terminal before 5 p.m." The system can simultaneously understand navigation, dining, and time constraints, and generate a complete itinerary plan by combining real-time traffic, weather, and merchant operating status information.

The key lies in multi-fuzzy intent recognition and complex path planning capabilities: the system can extract multiple intentions from a single natural language statement, perform task decomposition and scheduling, make decisions through cloud-based multi-Agent collaboration, and then coordinate vehicle-side applications for execution.

In the future, Hongqi's smart cockpit will also integrate more of Alibaba's ecosystem "task capabilities," such as instant retail, ticket booking, and travel services, gradually expanding the boundaries of in-car services.

"AI assistant on board" is seen as a crucial step from "screen-based services" to "physical world execution." Industry experts believe this is the first time a general AI assistant has entered the automotive scenario in a complete form. Previously, in-vehicle AI mainly remained at single-point capability output and had not yet directly faced users in a complete assistant form.

Over the past few months, around "AI for tasks," Qwen has successively launched capabilities such as food delivery, movie tickets, flight and hotel bookings, and ride-hailing. After entering the automotive scenario, these capabilities are further integrated into the travel process. With just one sentence, Qwen can continuously understand user needs and complete arrangements during the journey, driving in-car intelligence from "function response" to "proactive service."

Automobiles are considered an ideal carrier for "scenario intelligence + AI assistant": during driving, users have limited hands and high concentration, making voice interaction more essential. Travel itself is highly complex and requires continuous decision-making, which puts higher demands on AI's understanding and execution capabilities.

As PCs, mobile phones, smart glasses, and cars gradually become interconnected, Qwen is building cross-device collaboration capabilities, enabling users to complete continuous tasks across different scenarios through natural language. Alibaba previously mentioned internally that it hopes to build Qwen as an entry point in the AI era, not just a super app.

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Ali Tongyi Lab has recently undergone an organizational restructuring, splitting the Qwen team into multiple parallel lines such as pre-training and post-training. Subsequently, Yu Bowen, the former head of the post-training team of Qwen, was reported to have joined ByteDance, taking on the role of post-training lead for visual models and multimodal interaction within the Seed team. ByteDance has not officially responded yet.