A month ago at Beijing's 751 Park, AIVA unveiled a concept car named Origin Concept and announced a partnership with Volcano Engine to jointly define, design and build an "AI car". Volcano Engine aimed to connect large models, cloud services, in-vehicle infotainment systems and various onboard services. On July 13, 36Kr reported that ByteDance was exploring autonomous driving, involving the Seed team's world model and unmanned delivery, potentially advancing under Volcano Engine's automotive business line, currently in the preparation and recruitment phase. ByteDance responded that Physical AI is an early research direction of the Seed team, and the company has no plans to develop intelligent driving businesses. Industry insiders questioned if ByteDance is trying to recreate Baidu Apollo, but the article suggests ByteDance aims to become an external AI hub for automakers. Volcano Engine's automotive solutions already cover automotive data, smart cockpit and autonomous driving data closed-loop, with its autonomous driving cloud extending from data storage to training, simulation and evaluation. Doubao has been deployed in over 7 million vehicles, covering more than 50 brands and 145 models, with over 30 million daily in-vehicle interactions, though most connections occur at the voice, content, navigation and service layers, not the perception, planning and control layers.