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Xpeng spends $500M/year on AI training to beat Tesla FSD

Xpeng’s head of autonomous driving told Electrek that the company is spending roughly 300 million RMB (~$41 million) per month on AI training alone and believes it has already reached parity with Tesla’s FSD v13 — with v14 within reach…

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Xpeng's Dr. Xianming Liu explains VLA 2.0's vision-to-action approach, $300M/month R&D spend, and why the company sees itself as a Physical AI firm, not a car maker.

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