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Tesla recently sued Cao Guangzhi (Guangzhi Cao), a former Autopilot computer vision researcher, accusing him of stealing the source code of Autopilot self-driving technology and joining Chinese electric car startup Xiaopeng Automobile, according to foreign media.

Tesla stated in an indictment that Cao Guangzhi copied more than 300,000 files related to Autopilot source code and uploaded complete copies of Autopilot related source code to his iCloud account. Then, on January 3 this year, Cao Guangzhi suddenly applied for his resignation to Tesla and then moved to China Xiaopeng as the company's head of self-driving awareness. Tesla also said in the indictment that Autopilot is the research and development achievement that Tesla has invested more than hundreds of millions of dollars over the past five years, and Cao Zhiguang and Xiaopeng Automobile will not be allowed to do anything to infringe Autopilot-related technology patents.

Subsequently, some media on the Internet linked it with Xiaopeng Automobile at this time.

He Xiaopeng, chairman of Xiaopeng Motor, issued a statement on moments today in response to Tesla's accusation yesterday of a former Chinese employee who stole Autopilot technology and then joined Xiaopeng Motor, as well as doubts on the Internet.

He Xiaopeng's moments original text:

A few weeks ago, I heard that Elon mentioned Xiaopeng several times inside Tesla, and expected the relevant team to pay attention to it. If it is expressed in this way, I am quite puzzled, with a suspicious, civil lawsuit, by attacking the engineer.

Tesla and Xiaopeng are both innovative companies that are doing their own research and development for self-driving, and only competition will make technological progress and benefit users (for example, we will soon upgrade the automatic parking technology of OTA, which has not found a similar model in the industry at all).

I also have a technical and product background, and firmly believe that only through independent research and development can we make good products that are suitable for Chinese users. The flow of talents, including the flow of high-end talents between China and the United States, is normal between enterprises, but to reduce the flow of talents in this way, it is better to think about how to improve the competitiveness of internal talents.

When I started my first business, I also entered the American market, but basically at that time, similar war of words was among American start-ups. Now the second start-up has been found to be extended from American start-ups to Chinese start-ups. I believe this is a necessary process of confrontation in the field of high-tech technology in the future global competition, and I also expect other high-tech start-ups to pay more attention and handle it carefully. Many friends have reminded me, thank you very much!

But I will not have any fear and give up, we will continue to introduce high-tech talents in more fields, the global wave of competition for smart cars is ultimately the competition for technology and products.

Earlier, when Tesla sued Cao Guangzhi (Guangzhi Cao), a former Autopilot computer vision scientist, to join China Xiaopeng Automotive Technology Co., Ltd., it copied more than 300,000 documents related to the Autopilot source code. On January 3 this year, Cao Guangzhi suddenly tendered his resignation to Tesla, and then Tesla found that he had changed his job to Xiaopeng car to become the person in charge of self-driving awareness.

According to Tesla, during Tesla's tenure, Cao Guangzhi was one of 40 people on the Autopilot team who had access to the source code, while Tesla's Autopilot-related technology was the result of Tesla's more than five years of research and development and hundreds of millions of dollars of investment.

Subsequently, Xiaopeng official also issued a statement:

Original statement:

Recently, Tesla filed a civil lawsuit against Mr. Cao Guangzhi, a former employee, visual scientist and now employee of Xiaopeng Automobile. Some media reports linked the matter to Xiaopeng Automobile. For this reason, Xiaopeng Automobile issued the following media statement:

1. Before and after Mr. Cao Guangzhi joined the post, Xiaopeng Motor did not find any possible violations claimed by Tesla. At present, Xiaopeng Motor has launched a further investigation into the matter.

2. We pay close attention to this matter and thank you for your attention and understanding. A small number of media reports and the descriptions and guesses made by Tesla in this case related to Xiaopeng Motor are not in line with the facts.

3. Xiaopeng Automobile is one of the leading new car manufacturers in China, which carries out independent research and development in many fields such as self-driving. We firmly believe that groundless accusation will not suppress innovation. Xiaopeng will continue to introduce high-tech talents in various fields and actively face the global wave of competition for smart cars.

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