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There is a high-level change in the autopilot team. Recently, Gu Junli, vice president of R & D who has worked in Xiaopeng automobile for two and a half years, was announced to leave. In response, Xiaopeng automobile said: the company will not affect the normal operation of the department or the original business because of the personal departure. "The established product planning and technology development of the auto driving business is progressing smoothly," Xiaopeng said "Gu Junli" Gu Junli joined Xiaopeng in October 2017 and became Vice President of automatic driving research and development. His senior resume, especially his working experience, once attracted widespread attention. According to the public information, Gu Junli graduated from Tsinghua University and obtained a doctor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He once served as the chief engineer of the international chip giant AMD and was responsible for the research and development of big data and deep learning software. He joined Tesla in 2016, built the Tesla machine learning team and developed autopilot 2.0 products and realize large-scale deployment on multiple generations of Tesla vehicles. After joining Xiaopeng automobile, Gu Junli reports directly to the chairman and CEO of Xiaopeng automobile. After Gu Junli leaves, Wu Xinzhou will comprehensively lead Xiaopeng automobile to continue to promote the development and landing of automatic driving. Wu Xinzhou was once the head of the research and development team of Qualcomm's automatic driving. In March 2019, Xiaopeng announced that Wu Xinzhou was the vice president of automatic driving, responsible for the overall technical route planning, automatic driving business and team management of Xiaopeng in China and the United States.