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Author: SR64
Editor: Zhihao

According to a report from Chedongxi on July 18, Nullmax recently held the "AI has no end, intelligent change is a new beginning" 2024 technology conference in Shanghai, and officially launched the autonomous driving technology Nullmax Intelligence (abbreviated as "NI").

▲Nullmax launches autonomous driving technology NI

NI technology focuses on building autonomous driving applications, with pure vision, no images, and multi-modality as its technical features.

NI technology includes multimodal models and safety-inspired brains, which help cars gain sensory capabilities and output visualization results, scene descriptions, and driving behaviors. Based on NI technology, Nullmax plans to implement full-scenario intelligent driving applications by 2025 and expand application scenarios to areas such as freight and robotics.

1. Support pure vision without image and low computing power to realize assisted driving

At the press conference, Nullmax officially launched the autonomous driving technology Nullmax Intelligence ("NI" for short). NI technology adds input support for sound, text, gestures and other information based on vision, performs task reasoning through a multimodal end-to-end model, and builds a safe brain-like system based on brain-like neural networks. The system as a whole outputs visualization results, scene descriptions and driving behaviors.

On the technical level, NI has integrated static perception, dynamic perception, and time series fusion. At the same time, it has deployed Yan1.2, a general large model of Yanxin Digital Intelligence's non-Attention mechanism, on the vehicle side, and has cooperated with Yansi Brain-Like Research Institute to build a brain-like neural network.

This architectural design allows NI to think like humans based on the images, sounds, text and other information it receives, while also being able to respond based on environmental conditions, thereby achieving safety and intelligence.

▲Nullmax autonomous driving technology NI

NI's biggest feature at the technical level is its support for pure vision, image-free, and multi-modal autonomous driving applications.

Without relying on lidar or binocular cameras, Nullmax can perform obstacle detection and 3D reconstruction through pure vision, and through real-time generation of local maps combined with basic navigation, it can achieve true map-free applications that do not rely on high-precision maps, light maps, low-precision maps, or crowdsourced maps.

▲NI technical features

This enables Nullmax's solution to support full-scenario applications with lower computing power requirements. Sparse computing power of less than 100T is sufficient to achieve full-scenario navigation assisted driving.

At the same time, Nullmax has built a data platform and an algorithm platform. Based on real data, Nullmax generates virtual data through AIGC to accelerate model development and iteration.

Through multimodal input tokenization, multimodal model reasoning and autonomous driving function integration, as well as MaxOS platform scheduling, Nullmax's algorithm platform can support a variety of vehicle models, adapt to different numbers of sensors, and is easy to deploy.

▲NI technical data platform and algorithm platform

In addition to being applied to self-driving cars, these algorithmic capabilities can also be reused in robots, such as visual navigation, learning human behavior, and understanding and interacting with the physical world.

2. The smart driving solution has been supplied to many companies around the world

According to Nullmax's official introduction, Nullmax was founded in Silicon Valley, USA in 2016. Nullmax's visual perception algorithm and integrated driving and parking solution have been recognized by the industry in the field of mass production and are applied to mass-produced models of high, medium and low platforms. The mass production process ranks at the forefront of the industry.

▲Nullmax

Since its establishment in 2016, Nullmax has successively launched high, medium and low-configuration intelligent driving solutions including integrated driving and parking, and provided applications for automobile manufacturers, Tier 1 and other companies around the world.

Nullmax said that in the future, Nullmax will continue to explore the latest technologies, promote the implementation of autonomous driving for passenger and cargo transportation in all scenarios, expand embodied intelligent applications, and realize the popularization of science and technology.

In the media interview after the meeting, Nullmax's founder, CEO and CTO Xu Lei answered some questions about NI technology.

When asked by the media about Nullmax's cooperation plans with car chips and OEMs, Xu Lei said that from 2019 to today, Nullmax has cooperated with different chip manufacturers, different first-tier suppliers, and different car manufacturers.

In the low and medium computing power chips, such as TI, Renesas, including domestic Aixin Yuanzhi, BlackSesame（parameter丨pictureNullmax will create different solutions based on chips with different computing power. On high-computing power chips, such as NVIDIA chips, Nullmax has achieved both pure ADAS and city-level intelligent driving with integrated cabin and driver.

Some media asked Xu Lei what the advantages of Nullmax are compared with other suppliers. Xu Lei said that Nullmax's solution can be adapted to more chips, and this solution does not require lidar or high-precision maps to be used, which is an obvious difference.

In terms of cost, Xu Lei said that in NI technology, the main cost is the camera and a low or medium computing power platform that is not too expensive. If calculated based on a computing power platform of tens of terabytes, the cost is definitely less than a few thousand yuan, and the number of sensors is definitely very low.

Conclusion: Nullmax promotes the development of autonomous driving technology

With the continuous advancement of technology, the field of autonomous driving is ushering in new changes. Nullmax demonstrated its technological progress in the field of autonomous driving through its latest NI technology. NI technology not only achieved a major breakthrough in visual perception, but also improved the intelligence and safety of the system through multimodal input and brain-like neural networks.

At the same time, the application of this technology is not limited to self-driving cars, but also extends to fields such as robots, demonstrating its broad application prospects. Nullmax's vision is to promote the implementation of full-scenario autonomous driving and provide testing and applications for emerging fields through its integrated driving and parking solutions.

We have reason to believe that as autonomous driving technology becomes more mature and popular in the future, it will bring more convenience and safety to people's daily travel.