Today, NIO Inc. announced a significant organizational restructuring of its smart driving research and development department, establishing a new technical committee to strengthen its overall capabilities. This adjustment aims to enhance the efficiency of smart driving technology development, reinforce the delivery team's capabilities, and ensure the efficient delivery of solutions.
As part of this restructuring, NIO's head of smart driving, Ren Shaoqing, will directly lead the large model department, which was previously led by the head of perception algorithms, Peng Chao, who will now report to Ren. Following the adjustment, leaders in key areas such as parking solutions and data loop solutions will also report directly to Ren Shaoqing, further enhancing departmental collaboration and execution efficiency.
The NIO smart driving platform department includes the large model department, deployment architecture and solutions department, and the systems department. It is reported that this adjustment aims to optimize the organizational structure to better align with the large model-based smart driving technology architecture, thereby improving research and development efficiency and delivery speed. The adjusted structure will provide unified support for NIO's main brand "NIO", sub-brand "Lidao", and the new brand "Firefly".
In response to the above adjustments, NIO stated that this change is intended to better deliver advanced features to users while meeting the multi-platform and multi-functional business needs, and to respond swiftly to rapid changes in technology and products. NIO expressed that through this proactive adjustment, it will further solidify its competitiveness in the field of smart driving.