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VLT (XPENG VLA / VLA 2.0)

Xpeng Robotics' vision-centric VLA (Tesla-FSD-style, vision-only) shared across Xpeng EVs, robotaxis, and the IRON humanoid. Trained on a 30,000+ GPU cloud cluster. Runs on the Xpeng Turing AI chip. Announced for open-sourcing to global partners, with Volkswagen as the launch partner. VLA 2.0 rolled to Xpeng Ultra vehicles in Q1 2026; IRON humanoid mass production is targeted for end-2026.

Foundation model · Maturity: Pilot · Open source · Powers 2 robots

Machine-readable surfaces

Markdown mirror: /brains/vlt.md
RSS feed: /brains/vlt/feed.xml
JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
REST API: /v1/brains/c923bf79-8e36-4895-aa6e-ff9c10eb05c3
Data documentation: /data

Architecture

Vision-centric VLA (Tesla-FSD-style, vision-only), shared across Xpeng EVs, robotaxis, and the IRON humanoid. Trained on a 30,000+ GPU cloud cluster. Runs on the Xpeng Turing AI chip.

Key facts

DEPLOY maturity rationale: Pre-production: VLA 2.0 rolled to Xpeng Ultra vehicles Q1 2026; IRON humanoid mass production targeted end-2026. Recorded as pilot
Open-source pledge: VLA 2.0 announced for open-sourcing to global partners
Launch partner: Volkswagen, plus Turing chip nomination
Unveiled: Xpeng AI Day, November 5, 2025
IRON mass production target: End-2026
ET1 milestone: January 2026
Powered-models flagged (non-humanoid, not in registry): Xpeng robotaxis, XNGP ADAS for Xpeng EVs

Developed by (1)

XPeng Robotics

Powers (2)

XPeng IRONXPeng Robotics · humanoid
XPENG RobotaxiXPeng Robotics · av

Sources (4)

Xpeng pressroom (primary) · https://en.xiaopeng.com/news.html
Electrek: Xpeng VLA coverage · https://electrek.co/
RoboHorizon: Xpeng VLA 2.0 + IRON · https://robohorizon.com/
Inside China Auto: Xpeng AI Day November 5, 2025 · https://insidechinaauto.com/

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