BYD AI Team Revealed for First Time: HyWorldVLA Hybrid World Model Achieves SOTA on NAVSIM v1 With 90.59 PDMS Marking BYD Entry Into Autonomous Driving Foundation Models

BYD's AI team published its first research paper, HyWorldVLA, on July 29, revealing a new AI research group. The hybrid model combines pixel-level and latent-space world modeling, achieving 90.59 PDMS on the NAVSIM v1 benchmark, surpassing all previous results. This achievement marks a significant shift for BYD, previously seen as focused on supply chain integration rather than software research. The hybrid model addresses key challenges in autonomous driving, balancing environmental detail with processing efficiency.