# Xpeng spends $500M/year on AI training to beat Tesla FSD

> Source: <https://electrek.co/2026/06/05/xpeng-vla-interview-cvpr-language-poison-tesla-fsd/>
> Published: 2026-06-05 13:58:04+00:00

Xpeng’s head of autonomous driving told Electrek that the company is spending roughly 300 million RMB (~$41 million) per month on AI training alone and believes it has already reached parity with Tesla’s FSD v13 — with v14 within reach before the end of summer.

I sat down with Dr. Xianming Liu, head of Xpeng’s General Intelligence Center, the day after he delivered a keynote at CVPR 2026 in Denver — sharing the stage with Tesla’s Ashok Elluswamy and leaders from Nvidia and Waymo at one of the world’s top computer vision conferences.