Seres' Kang Bo: AITO Is Developing L3/L4 Autonomous Driving; Magic Cube Tech Platform Already Supports L3 Architecture

On November 5, Kang Bo, Director and Vice President of Seres Group, posted about his remarks at the 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit. Kang Bo said that the AITO brand now has more than one million high-end vehicles in use, over one million active users, and cumulative mileage exceeding 10 billion kilometers; as of the end of October, it had cumulatively helped avoid more than 4.5 million potential collisions. He noted that AITO is laying out L3/L4 autonomous driving, and the newly iterated Magic Cube technology platform already supports the L3 architecture. On November 4, Seres said on the investor interaction platform that L3 conditional autonomous driving needs to meet requirements across multiple areas, including national regulations and standards, product access, scenario policies, and compliance verification, and that the company is actively preparing related work, with specific models and filing information subject to official announcements. The Magic Cube technology platform is a whole-vehicle technology platform independently developed by Seres, and its 2.0 version was released at the Guangzhou auto show in November 2025. The platform integrates six major systems: diversified powertrains, cabin-driving coordination, intelligent chassis, smart hub, intelligent safety, and smart services. Its electronic and electrical architecture has been upgraded from "distributed zone control" to "central vehicle control + zone control," supporting large-model applications and end-to-end evolution. One platform supports multiple vehicle types such as sedans, SUVs, MPVs, and off-road vehicles, as well as multiple sizes from B to D segment. Seres officially stated that the Magic Cube technology platform 2.0 continues to drive the platform's evolution toward whole-vehicle L4 embodied intelligence. The mandatory national standard "Safety Requirements for Automated Driving Systems of Intelligent Connected Vehicles" (GB 44721—2026), organized, formulated, and administered by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, has been approved and issued by the State Administration for Market Regulation and the Standardization Administration of China, and is scheduled to be officially implemented starting July 1, 2027. The standard applies to M-category and N-category vehicles equipped with relevant systems, does not apply to automated parking systems, and sets requirements for human-machine interaction, driver takeover capability monitoring, and minimum risk strategies. At the product level, the new AITO M8 is equipped with Huawei Qiankun Smart Driving ADS 5 and features 38 sensors, including 4 lidars. The official description is that "the entire lineup comes standard with an architecture designed for L3 autonomous driving." At the current stage, this function is classified as assisted driving and needs to be supported through OTA upgrades or activated for a fee, and the driver remains fully responsible for driving behavior. In terms of R&D investment, Seres' R&D investment in 2025 reached 12.51 billion yuan, up 77.4% year on year; as of December 31, 2025, its R&D personnel numbered 9,019, accounting for 41.1% of the company's total workforce, and it had cumulatively obtained 8,046 authorized patents.