BYD has officially denied recent online rumors claiming that its God's Eye C driver-assistance system is being discontinued and that the company plans to switch its ADAS (advanced driver assistance system) solutions for God's Eye B and C to Horizon Robotics, according to PCauto.
On November 4, BYD's network reporting center issued a statement calling the rumors "untrue information." The company emphasized that it remains committed to full-stack in-house development and that its ADAS software continues to undergo iterative updates. It also warned that it has collected evidence and will pursue legal action against those spreading false information.
The denial came after social media posts, including those from accounts like "汽车车友圈," "蓝鲸新闻," and "IThome," suggested that BYD would drop the current God's Eye C configuration. BYD's reporting center publicly screenshotted these posts as part of its rebuttal.
Current and future ADAS hardware
According to publicly available information cited by PCauto, BYD's God's Eye C system currently uses either the NVIDIA Orin-N chip (84 TOPS) or the Horizon Robotics Journey 6M chip (128 TOPS), with software developed in-house. Early vehicles equipped with God's Eye C primarily used the Orin-N chip. However, starting in 2026, new models with God's Eye C will no longer list the chip model in their specifications, meaning different production batches of the same car may use different chips. This move is seen as reducing the importance of chip specifications in consumer decision-making.
For the higher-tier God's Eye B system, the current configuration includes a single NVIDIA Orin-X chip (254 TOPS). Yet new models launched this year, such as the Seagull 08, BYD Han, Sealion 08, and Denza Z9S, also omit chip details from their spec sheets. This suggests BYD is keeping flexibility in its chip supply chain and may eventually adopt its own in-house 4nm ADAS chip, the Xuanji A3, which is said to offer AI computing power comparable to NVIDIA's Thor-U chip (700 TOPS).
BYD's strategy appears to be moving away from highlighting specific chip brands, focusing instead on the overall performance of its self-developed software stack. The company has not yet announced a launch date for the Xuanji A3 chip.
