Instead, the company said artificial intelligence models can be used to enable cars to navigate from points A to B. This makes its system even more cost-competitive on the Chinese market compared with Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) software, chief executive Xu Lei told reporters in Shanghai. Context: Chinese EV startups led by NIO, Xpeng Motors, and Li Auto have been ramping up efforts to transition from “rule-based” designs to an “end-to-end” autonomous driving method. Nullmax was co-founded in 2016 by Xu Lei and Justin Song, both of whom spent time at Tesla. READ MORE: Former Tesla engineer shares thoughts on end-to-end autonomous driving at WAIC 2024Editor’s note: ‘Landing AI’ is a series of special reports focusing on the field of Artificial Intelligence curated by TechNode.