Qianli Tech brings AI agents into cars, previews ASD 5.0 at WAIC 2026

WAIC 2026 kicked off in Shanghai this week, and Qianli Technology used the stage to lay out its next moves in automotive AI — from a major autonomous driving update to plans for bringing full-fledged AI agents into vehicles.

The company released a technical preview of ASD 4.1, its upcoming autonomous driving system, built around three improvements. The headline feature is zero-disconnect Door-to-Door (D2D) driving — meaning the system can navigate from a basement garage through city streets and into suburban roads without handing control back to the driver. A single navigation destination handles the whole route.

ASD 4.1 also gets a deeper semantic understanding layer powered by a physical AI large model. The system can now identify small animals, specialized vehicles, and pedestrians who need extra caution, then adjust its driving behavior accordingly. The third piece is deeper cockpit-to-driving integration: voice commands can directly control the vehicle, and the system proactively interprets the driver’s intent to act on it. Qianli Technology says ASD 5.0 is on track for a year-end release.

On the operating system side, the bigger story is how Qianli is bringing Jieyue Xingchen’s recently announced Step AOS — an agent-native operating system — into cars. Step AOS is built around three core capabilities: memory, decision-making and execution, and security. It connects model capabilities directly to hardware, turning everything from the car’s sensors to its existing system functions into resources that AI agents can call on. The user just states what they want done; the agent handles the entire chain autonomously.

Qianli Technology also unveiled “Super Eva” at WAIC, an automotive AI agent developed jointly with Geely and Jieyue Xingchen. Super Eva runs on Jieyue Xingchen’s Step 3.7 Flash Agentic model as its core reasoning engine, and it supports natural human-like interaction and multiple languages. The agent can take a vague travel request — “I need to get to a meeting but want to grab coffee on the way” — and automatically convert it into a navigation plan integrated with the full autonomous driving stack.

Beyond navigation and driving, Super Eva adds a visual interaction module and can tap into local life services. It can summon a mini-program to order food or book tickets without the driver touching a phone.

The agent has been running on the Zeekr 8X since March this year. Qianli plans to expand it to other compatible models across partner brands over time.