Recruitment in Zhi Zhi

165438+1On October 26th, Shanghai Group, Pudong New Area and Alibaba Group held a signing ceremony to jointly build a brand-new high-end automobile brand "Zhiji Automobile".

SAIC announced on 26th that in order to speed up the brand building of independent high-end intelligent pure electric vehicles, the company plans to jointly establish Shanghai Yuan Jie Intelligent Technology Equity Investment Fund Partnership (Limited Partnership) with Zhangjiang Hi-Tech and Hengxu Capital to invest in high-end intelligent pure electric vehicle projects.

The announcement also shows that the Fund intends to jointly invest with Alibaba (China) Network Technology Co., Ltd. (including its designated subordinate investors) in the high-end intelligent pure electric vehicle project (tentatively named "Smart Car").

According to SAIC executives, the first round of financing of the project has reached 654.38+0 billion yuan.

101October 12, some media reported that SAIC was carrying out a brand-new electric smart car project code-named "L", which was regarded as "No.1 Project" by SAIC.

It is reported that the project was prepared two years ago, focusing on high-end intelligent new energy vehicles. The project team is headed by Chen Hong, the chairman, and Wang Xiaoqiu, the president. Wei Yong, the vice president and CFO, Zu Sijie, the vice president and chief engineer, and other senior executives are also members of the project team. ?

This time, the project was named "Zhiji Automobile". It is reported that at present, Zhiji Automobile is the first car positioning car. "It is expected that the winter test will be conducted in Heihe at the end of this year, and a large number of new cars will be seen on the road next year."

Intelligent and digital transformation has become the consensus and theme of traditional car companies in 2020. SAIC started to build a software center in March this year, and openly recruited software talents for the society in April. On July 2 1, SAIC announced that its software center was named "Zero Beam Software Branch". ?

SAIC Zero Beam mainly focuses on intelligent driving system engineering, software architecture, basic software platform and data factory, including SOA software platform, new generation centralized electronic architecture, cloud service platform, computing chip, automobile big data platform, edge artificial intelligence application, intelligent cabin system, etc.

The establishment of zero beam can be seen as a prelude to knowing the machine car. The cooperation between SAIC and Ali began from 2065438+March 2005, and the two sides invested RMB 65,438 billion to establish Zebra Network.

2065438+In July, 2006, SAIC launched the first Roewe RX5 Internet car equipped with Zebra Zhixing system. However, in May 2020, Zebra Network completed its strategic reorganization and SAIC withdrew.

The establishment of confidant automobile will also rebuild the cooperative relationship between SAIC and Ali. Both SAIC and Ali need to prove themselves again in the era of smart cars.

This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.