BYD Executive Highlights Data Volume as Key to Competing with Huawei in Autonomous Driving
Zhang Zhuo, General Manager of BYD Ocean Network, stated that data volume is the core driver for end-to-end autonomous driving models. He highlighted that BYD's "God's Eye" system generates 220 million kilometers of daily driving data to fuel its algorithm iterations. As the Chinese automotive industry transitions to end-to-end AI architectures, BYD is leveraging its massive fleet size to challenge Huawei's dominance in smart driving. This strategy suggests that sheer data scale could eventually close the technology gap between competing automakers. As of July 31, 2026, BYD has sold 3.52 million vehicles equipped with either its proprietary "God's Eye" system or Huawei's Qiankun smart driving system. Zhang predicts that the capability gap among automakers will narrow as the industry fully adopts end-to-end architectures.
## BACKGROUND
End-to-end autonomous driving models replace traditional modular pipelines (perception, planning, control) with a single, unified neural network trained on vast amounts of driving data. BYD's proprietary "God's Eye" (天神之眼) system and Huawei's Qiankun (乾崑) represent competing smart driving solutions in the Chinese market, where automakers are racing to achieve higher levels of automation.