Events

NYU Tandon ECE Seminar Series: A Foundation Model for Physical AI

Speaker: Dr Xianming Liu

Location: TBA
Videoconference link: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/arW0D1OKS2qqkCZUhrUzhQ#/registration

Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2025

This talk will introduce Xpeng VLA 2.0, the industry's first mass-produced, billion-parameter-scale foundation model for physical AI. We will explore its novel "Vision-Implicit Token-Action" architecture, an end-to-end approach that bypasses language bottlenecks to directly translate visual data into action. Trained on large scale unlabeled, real-world video clips, VLA 2.0 functions as a self-evolving generative action and world model, demonstrating emergent abilities to understand complex gestures and navigate untrained scenarios. We will also cover the full-stack optimization for its on-vehicle deployment and its function as a unified platform for Xpeng's entire ecosystem, from autonomous vehicles to robotics. The system will be massively deployed to all customer vehicles in Q1 2026.