I just saw an interesting piece of news about Zeekr 8X, which officially started mass production today. What makes this quite significant is the launch of Super Eva—an intelligent vehicle hub for a new generation that integrates a smart cabin, driver-assistance systems, and a digital ecosystem into one unified system.

What’s most exciting is the transition that’s happening here. Over the past year, the domestic AI automotive industry has been full of demos and lab presentations, but the real barrier has been how to bring this technology into consumers’ hands in real driving scenarios. Super Eva marks the moment when this is finally here—Jiepao’s large model, especially Step 3.5 Flash, is now ready for deployment massal.

Step 3.5 Flash itself is quite impressive. Inference speed reaches up to 350 TPS for a single request, and it can understand ambiguous instructions and plan multi-step tasks in real time. A simple but powerful example: just say, “Pick up my kids from school, find a McDonald’s, and get there before 5,” and the system will automatically handle routing, transit points, and activate the autopilot.

Super Eva was developed together by Jiepao, Geely, and Qianli Technology. Besides the inference model, there is also a voice model that moves away from the traditional ASR-LLM-TTS architecture—resulting in lower latency and more natural expressions. Plus, it has visual understanding that can “sense” road conditions, parking spots, and even situations inside the vehicle.

What’s interesting is this long-term vision. Super Eva is not only an AI partner in the car, but an intelligent hub connected to Geely’s ecosystem of after-sales services, rentals, and daily-life services. While driving, users can order restaurants, order food, and buy flight tickets—all through natural conversation without needing to switch between apps.

The industry indeed predicts 2026 as a key year for adoption of large models on devices. This launch proves that the technology is already mature for real-world scenarios with high latency requirements. It also opens a pathway to replicate Jiepao across various other hardware scenarios.

Zeekr 8X becomes the first vehicle in China to mass-deliver this experience. If this trend continues, intelligent hubs in vehicles will become the standard rather than the exception. Pretty exciting to watch how this develops.