According to 1M AI News monitoring, Mercedes-Benz China announced that a multimodal large model developed jointly with Tsinghua University and Zhipu, an AI large model company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange this January, will be implemented in the new generation Maybach S-Class and the all-new S-Class sedans. The model is deployed in the rear-seat entertainment system, integrating natural language processing with visual, audio, and other multimodal understanding and generation capabilities. It works in conjunction with in-car cameras and sensing hardware to perform inference locally under the vehicle’s computing power. According to Zhipu’s official statement, Mercedes-Benz has thus become the first automotive brand to apply multimodal large models in the rear-seat entertainment system.