General-Purpose AI Could Squeeze Out Smart Driving Specialists, Industry Exec Warns

Autonomous driving companies face an existential threat from general-purpose AI models expanding into executing physical tasks and must urgently focus more on model development to survive, the head of a Chinese smart driving startup said.

The warning highlights a growing industry debate over whether deep-pocketed tech giants developing multimodal large language models will eventually dominate physical applications like robotics and autonomous vehicles, rendering specialized driving software obsolete.