Former Li Auto Intelligent Driving Head Xia Zhongpu Joins Wujie Power

[Personnel Change] Xia Zhongpu, former end-to-end intelligent driving lead at Li Auto, has joined Wujie Power, a company specializing in embodied intelligence.

Core Development: Top-tier Intelligent Driving Talent Shifts to Embodied Intelligence

Xia Zhongpu joined Li Auto in 2023 and was appointed head of the end-to-end project in March 2024, leading his team to complete the transition from demo to mass production delivery within 100 days, enabling Li Auto to achieve a critical leap in its intelligent driving architecture. After leaving Li Auto, he declined offers from multiple automakers and chose to focus on research in world models and reinforcement learning at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has now officially joined Wujie Power, which was founded in 2025.

Strategic Foundation: Accelerating Convergence of Autonomous Driving and Robotics Technologies

Wujie Power specializes in developing a "general-purpose brain" and "operational intelligence" for robots. The company has secured nearly RMB 800 million in funding and has entered industrial production lines of international clients. Xia Zhongpu's move underscores that large-model capabilities from autonomous driving are becoming a pivotal factor in the advancement of embodied intelligence, and also reflects a growing trend of talent from the Li Auto ecosystem flowing into the intersection of AI and robotics.