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On November 4, according to XPeng's official social media account, XPeng collaborated with research teams from Peking University, the University of Hong Kong, and other universities to jointly release research findings on the embodied perception foundation model GroundingPI.

The research proposes a "perception-first" technical approach, achieving first place in comprehensive evaluations across 34 public perception benchmarks with approximately 4 billion parameters, while demonstrating higher data processing efficiency and stronger scene generalization capabilities in robotic simulation tasks.

GroundingPI proposes that the primary prerequisite for embodied intelligence is the precise perception of spatial positions of oneself and surrounding objects, and that perceptual representation is crucial for physical AI.

The research team compared GroundingPI with OpenAI's frontier model GPT-6 Astra on the same set of 34 perception benchmarks. Using the equal-weighted average across the above 11 categories of capabilities, GroundingPI scored 73.68, while Astra scored 71.54.