China’s Momenta is preparing to expand its cooperation with Great Wall Motor: the company will supply intelligent driving solutions for two new models from the group at once. According to local media, the premieres of these vehicles are expected in early next year, and one of the new products will be the Haval Raptor. For the Haval brand, this means the introduction of Momenta’s system into production cars and, in essence, another step by the supplier toward major automakers.
It is reported that both models will receive Momenta’s latest “single-stage” end-to-end architecture built around the R6 Flywheel large language model. The same model, it is уточняется, is already used on the Buick Electra L7 sold in China. The hardware foundation of the system will be the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8620 chip, providing efficient computing power at the level of 156 W.
In terms of functionality, this is an advanced L2+ level with a set of assistants: highway navigation NOA (essentially an autopilot for highways) and parking assistance are заявлены. At the same time, city navigation NOA will not be supported at launch—at least, that is what sources claim.
To more closely support the GWM project, Momenta has formed a dedicated demonstration-and-testing team in Baoding (Hebei Province), where the automaker’s headquarters is located. The publication also notes that Momenta CEO Cao Xudong regularly visits this site. In parallel, the company declares a transition of future mass-market solutions to a single-stage approach using large language models and reinforcement learning.
At the same time, GWM already has other ADAS partners. Among them is DeepRoute, which received $100 million in investment from the automaker (C1 round) in November 2024. DeepRoute became a solutions supplier for GWM in March 2024, and in August the Wey Lanshan Smart Driving Edition was released with city NOA without high-precision maps. On December 22, an updated Lanshan was unveiled, becoming the first production car with DeepRoute’s VLA (Vision-Language-Action) system.
According to CnEVPost, in November GWM sold 133,216 vehicles: this is 4.57% more year-on-year, but 6.89% less than in October. The main contribution came from Haval—75,383 vehicles (56.59% of monthly sales), while the premium Wey delivered 12,763 units (9.58%). At the same time, as Reuters writes, GWM is selecting a site for its first plant in Europe and plans to reach a capacity there of 300,000 vehicles per year by 2029 (source: cnevpost.com).
