China Mobile has opened what it calls the auto industry's first shared AI foundation, a package of compute, data and model services that carmakers can draw on without building their own AI infrastructure. The platform was unveiled at the 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference in Beijing by the National AI Application Pilot Base for the automotive sector, a facility led by China Mobile, according to Science and Technology Daily and Sina Tech.
The base describes itself as neutral: it does not build cars and says its capabilities are open to the whole industry. Executives from FAW, Dongfeng, Changan, BAIC, Li Auto, Tsinghua University and the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area attended the launch. The base says the platform took a year to build and is available for shared use from launch.
On the compute side, the platform currently manages 112.7 EFLOPS, which carmakers can call on elastically instead of building their own data centers. On data, the base says carmakers keep full ownership of their core data, which only moves between partners under a compliance framework. On models, it offers a toolchain covering development, validation and deployment.
The platform spans four areas, R&D, manufacturing, intelligent driving and testing, and ships with six agents: vehicle styling design, process planning, visual quality inspection, smart maintenance, driving-data generation and driving-model training. The base says they are already in use at more than ten state-owned carmakers.
The base gave examples, all its own figures. In Shanghai, a styling agent that generates designs from sketches made a single design set three times faster, and a process-planning agent cut a vehicle's process cards from five days to four hours. In Jilin, the inspection agent raised defect detection above 99.5% and cut line adaptation from four weeks to one, while the data-generation agent lowered driving R&D spending by 10%. In Chongqing, the maintenance agent recognizes more than 20 types of faults and cut downtime by 30%. In Beijing, the training agent doubled training speed for a driving policy.
A China Mobile official said the next phase will open more core capabilities, match them to carmakers' own use cases and build a set of reference deployments other companies can copy.
The launch extends China Mobile's push from raw computing capacity into packaged, industry-specific agents, and it gives smaller carmakers a way to test AI tools without the upfront cost of building their own stack.
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