Horizon Yu Kai's judgment on the ultimate fate of autonomous driving: 80% will definitely involve deep cooperation with industry champions.

The Future Car Pioneer Conference 2025 will be held at the Shenzhen International Convention and Exhibition Center from May 31st to June 1st. As a supplier to the host factory, Horizon Founder & CEO Yu Kai claims to have "eaten at a hundred families", which has also brought him an advantage - accumulating the largest scene library in the industry, with each version release going through more than 10 million kilometers of accumulated experience. When discussing the choice between self-research and external cooperation for host factories, Yu Kai emphasizes that host factories must maintain openness to industry cooperation, "because you cannot guarantee that you will definitely be the world champion in the process of rapid technological change". "Those who insist on being closed, in the end, their market share becomes smaller and smaller," he said. At the turning point of technology at multiples of ten, whether it is self-research or third-party cooperation, it is not "seeking death", the most important thing is to satisfy user experience. Yu Kai also made a judgment: in the end of autonomous driving, perhaps 20% of car models or 20% of manufacturers will be self-researched, and 80% will definitely deeply cooperate with industry champions.