General Motors’ SAIC-GM joint venture in China has just announced the integration of DeepSeek-R1 artificial intelligence technology into the Smart Cockpits of its vehicles.
The automaker announced that it has entered into a strategic agreement with DeepSeek to integrate the company’s AI technology into the Smart Cockpits modules of its next-generation vehicles in the Asian country, to meet the high demand for connected vehicles in the local market. SAIC-GM will gradually add the DeepSeek-R1 reasoning AI model to its latest models.
Notably, SAIC-GM becomes the first Chinese joint venture to agree to integrate DeepSeek-R1 AI technology into its vehicles’ smart cockpits ahead of its traditional rivals in the Chinese market, joining the list of 100 percent Chinese-owned companies that have also entered into a deal with the tech startup. This AI solution will be integrated into Cadillac and Buick vehicles manufactured in China.
SAIC-GM reports that it has established an “integrated edge-cloud AI model hub” for its next-generation vehicles that supports the simultaneous operation of multiple advanced AI models. This AI hub integrated into the smart cockpit modules enables collaborative evolution between dual AI solutions, combining DeepSeek’s complex reasoning model with the creative generation capabilities of ERNIE Bot technology.
As such, the smart cockpits developed by SAIC-GM for its next-generation vehicles were designed to transcend the traditional boundaries of perception, reasoning, thinking, and interaction with users. Thanks to the AI model center embedded in the hardware of the multimedia modules, the company’s vehicles are evolving from simple transportation tools into iterative AI entities.
DeepSeek has revolutionized the field of AI and its DeepSeek-R1 advanced inference model has powerful capabilities, from complex reasoning to data processing that seek to transform the interaction of users with their vehicles. SAIC-GM decided to integrate the DeepSeek-R1 inference model into the smart cabins of its vehicles with the aim of giving them a “smart brain” that is opening a new chapter in connected travel.
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“integrated edge-cloud AI model hub”
What is this marketing word salad supposed to mean?
Besides more driver distractions and higher prices?
Also more surveillance and nanny stuff.
If this Chinese spy tech is installed on U.S.-sold Cadillacs, or any GM product, I will never buy another. (said as a CT4 Blackwing owner).
if this isn’t the chinese seal of approval, making gm a truly chinese company here in America. i will be thinking long and hard before i purchase another gm product.
It has been said that this AI Deepseek will send data directly to the Chinese gov, is that what we want?
I am a life long GM customer and I will never buy any vehicle with CCP software or any vehicles built in China…!!!
Mary should be charged with treason and deported to China.
The US would not allow Deepseek in US cars.
That said, GM has agreements with MSFT on software, and it’s possible (perhaps probable) that those agreements include AI for autos.
Questions- Does the GM/MSFT agreement speak to AI?
If so, what will that add to the utility of a vehicle? What value would that add? The article says nothing about that.
When might we see AI in GM vehicles? Which vehicles? Only new models, or can any GM EV download a software update? Or could it be a dealer update, needing installation of updated processor chips. Cost?
This is the first mention I’ve seen about AI in vehicles. It could be marketing blather, or it could be significant….
I would never need this AI nonsense in my cars. I have a sideseat-driving wife and she already knows everything to the point she would put these AIs to shame.
I downloaded Deepseek-R1-14 and tested it solving problems sude by side with some other available AI. Deepseek is clunky, but it is free. You pay for what you get.
Take a step back. This is GM showing their hand. They only care about Buick and Cadillac long term. Investing in Buick guarantees profits sanctioned in the CCP’s homeland and they see Cadillac as an profitable (overpriced) domestic EV brand.
We’ll see what happens when they finally pull the plug on their hereto for most popular line: full size gasoline pickups.
I’ve tested multiple iterations of AI. I don’t see the utility of sticking a chatbot in a car. KITT this is not.
This technology should be banned in the USA. Concerned that GM may inadvertently have this embedded in NA market vehicles, just waiting for an OTA update to turn it on.
“vehicles were designed to transcend the traditional boundaries of perception, reasoning, thinking, and interaction with users” and “the company’s vehicles are evolving from simple transportation tools into iterative AI entities.” Huh? What the heck is the point of all this? Sounds like more unnecessary garbage that will jack up the price of vehicles even more.
In five years we’ll be looking back and rolling our eyes at how badly everyone was chasing the AI hype bandwagon. “Iterative AI entities”, heh pure gold. They can’t even get century-old tech like hydraulic lifters to work, good luck mastering this.
my point of view is… a car or my car should have a minimal of electronics, because if breaks, and electronics brakes constant for a wiper for example…. then no … do really not need such tools in my car… the road has plates, signs… and before go to a place, at home see the google earth to have an idea where the sun downs and where is west, east, north and south or other referencies to the goal… if wife is together she has AIS to shows the direction.
I miss the days when American cars were American cars.
the more electronics, the more widgets, the more sensors you throw in a car, the more likely they are to break down. All this stuff adds more to break. All this is costly to fix because it will break. Add to it, I assume that the AI software is not vehicle resident, but is cloud based. that means that your car is fully integrated into the internet every instant, everywhere you go.
“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.” ― Douglas Adams