Xpeng spends $500M/year on AI training to beat Tesla FSD

Xpeng spends $41 million per month on AI training and claims parity with Tesla FSD v13, with v14 within reach by summer. The company's VLA 2.0 model removes language as an intermediate step during driving. Dr. Xianming Liu says language is poison for autonomous driving because it creates redundancy. VLA 2.0 still accepts text prompts from drivers as input. The system converts visual data directly into driving actions without language tokens in real-time execution.