From End-to-End Model to World Model： Algorithm Transition of Chery Intelligent Driving

On March 18th, the Third Yangtze River Bridge in Wuhu staged a scientific and technological wonder: 200 Chery cars with intelligent driving crossed the bridge at a uniform speed of 40km/h, and the intelligent driving feat of zero human intervention in the whole process opened the prelude to the intelligent strategy conference of "oil, electricity and intelligence in the world". Known by the industry as the "Smart Night", this grand event not only launched the 500/700/900 smart driving, but also crushed the technical strength of the industry with the iterative speed of the algorithm, announcing that Chery officially became the first echelon of smart driving in the world.

[Intergenerational Revolution of Algorithms]

Chery’s intelligent layout presents a clear step-by-step evolution: the end-to-end large model (E2E) mass-produced in 2025 took the lead in breaking the shackles of traditional modularity, and through the direct optimization of perception-decision, the efficiency of the Falcon 500/700 series in anthropomorphic decision-making was significantly improved. What is more worth looking forward to is that Eagle 900 deeply integrates VLA (Visual Action Language Model) with WM, and has dual capabilities of "scene generation+strategy deduction", which can predict complex traffic situations in advance.

"Practice of technical equality"

When the industry focused on the electrified track, Chery opened up a new battlefield with the wisdom of oil and electricity. Falcon Intelligent Driving System innovatively develops a digital twin platform, which overcomes the problem of response delay of traditional fuel vehicle drive-by-wire actuators and shortens the adaptation period of intelligent driving system. This makes such fuel vehicles also have high-speed NOA capability, realizing real technical equality. In the field of Off-Road intelligence, Falcon Intelligent Driving Off-road, the world’s first off-road intelligent driving technology, broke through the perception bottleneck of unpaved roads, and integrated satellite remote sensing data through Xinghai big data platform, which significantly improved the pass rate compared with the traditional off-road auxiliary system.

[Global data closed loop]

Supporting the technological transition is the global data engine built by Chery. The model learning mileage of 20 million kilometers per day forms a complete closed loop of "global acquisition-cloud training-scene simulation". Especially in overseas markets, 4.5 billion kilometers of real intelligent driving data feedback algorithm optimization has successfully solved regional problems such as the passing rate of complex roundabout in Europe and the perceived stability of dusty weather in the Middle East. Relying on China’s first EU dual certification qualification, Chery plans to land in Europe with Falcon 700 in 2026, and knock on the door of the high-end intelligent driving market with the verification data of 1 billion kilometers in the "digital parallel universe".

[Ecological competition pattern]

Facing the high-precision map dependence of NCA of Huawei ADS 2.0 and XNGP of Tucki, Chery chose to make a differentiated breakthrough: the update frequency of weekly algorithm iteration is four times faster than the industry average; Full-power type adaptability, covering the pain points of traditional car enterprise transformation; Breakthrough of off-road scenes, filling the blank market of intelligent driving. This technical layout has been verified on ET in Xingyue-a heterogeneous redundant system with 30 sensors, and the decision-making is highly anthropomorphic in the unprotected left turn scene.

From the intelligent driving along the Yangtze River to the verification of 1 billion kilometers in the digital universe, Chery is reshaping the industrial structure with intergenerational innovation of algorithms. When Falcon 900′ s VLA+WM architecture realizes L3-level automatic driving, this technological leap from end to end will lead China’s intelligent driving to a new era dominated by "world model".