On May 17th, at the second China Intelligent Driving Championship held in Hefei, the Chery Exeed Sterra ES, equipped with the one-stage end-to-end advanced driver-assistance system co-developed by WeRide Inc. (00800, WRD.US) and Bosch, secured its fifth consecutive championship title with a score of 102.81 points, setting a new record for consecutive wins in the competition.
Notably, during the preliminary rounds, the Exeed Sterra ES and the Aion N60, both featuring WeRide's WRD 3.0 solution, claimed the top two positions. The Aion N60 made its debut in the competition and defeated all competing models from the Momenta and Huawei ecosystems by a significant margin of 24.95 points. Due to competition regulations, only one vehicle from the two could advance to the finals. If both vehicles had been permitted to enter the finals, WeRide would have secured both the championship and runner-up titles at this event.
The year 2026 marks a pivotal period for the large-scale deployment of WeRide's WRD 3.0 one-stage end-to-end solution and a phase of accelerated technological evolution. Centered on this architecture, WeRide continues to enhance the generalization capability and decision-making consistency of its AI large models in complex scenarios. Through the WeRide GENESIS universal simulation platform, the company promotes data-closed-loop iteration and optimization of the training system, ensuring continuous, stable, and predictable performance across different vehicle models and diverse operating conditions.
Cross-platform adaptability is a prerequisite for WeRide WRD 3.0 to achieve broader mass production. On the engineering front, WeRide has successfully completed rapid adaptation of its one-stage end-to-end solution on mainstream computing platforms including NVIDIA DRIVE Orin-X, NVIDIA DRIVE Orin-Y, and Qualcomm SA8650. This has gradually formed a production-ready, rapidly transferable technical system, providing foundational support for the large-scale deployment across multiple vehicle models.
At the recently concluded 2026 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, WeRide formally entered into a strategic partnership with SiEngine, a leading domestic automotive supercomputing chip company. This collaboration provides a fundamental guarantee for developing more cost-effective and supply-chain-controllable one-stage end-to-end solutions based on SiEngine's "Starry Sky One" (AD1000) chip in the future.
Breakthroughs in underlying technology are rapidly translating into comprehensive commercial successes. Since the beginning of 2026, WeRide has secured nearly 30 model designations from brands under GAC Group, including Aion, Hyper, and Trumpchi, as well as from brands under Chery Group, such as Exeed, Tiggo, Lepas, Omoda, and JAECOO. The breadth of cooperation and pace of deployment have accelerated significantly, with the product line comprehensively covering vehicles from entry-level family cars priced around 100,000 yuan to flagship SUVs and sedans in the 300,000-yuan range.
Simultaneously, the company's L2++ ADAS business is set to expand beyond China for the first time, further reaching international markets including Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.
Moving forward, WeRide will continue to advance the large-scale adoption of its one-stage end-to-end technology. It aims to consistently reinforce the stable replication of its capabilities across multiple vehicle models, diverse scenarios, and extended operational periods, delivering a safer, more reliable, and user-friendly high-level advanced driver-assistance experience to global end consumers.
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