Mercedes-Benz has announced a multi-year partnership with Liquid AI to scale embedded, which will help bring on-device intelligence in the company’s automobiles that come with third and fourth generations of MBUX to North America, thereby heralding an important milestone towards achieving next-gen in-car AI experiences. Leveraging the Mercedes-Benz Operating System (MB.OS), the tie-up will utilize Liquid AI’s efficient Liquid Foundation Models (LFM) to improve real-time, privacy-preserving, and cloud-independent functionalities, especially around speech, language comprehension, and reasoning. In essence, this upgrade to the MBUX Virtual Assistant seeks to offer more seamless, lower latency, and context-aware user experiences by carrying out computations locally within the automobile, without being dependent on uninterrupted cloud connectivity.
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“With this strategic collaboration, we’re scaling embedded intelligence in the vehicle and improving AI speech capabilities for our customers in North America. By advancing on-device speech, language understanding and reasoning with Liquid AI, we’re laying the foundation for the next generation of intuitive and multimodal in-car experiences, with a clear path toward initial production deployment as early as the second half of 2026.” said Jörg Burzer. Liquid AI CEO Ramin Hasani emphasized the importance of infrastructure-level AI, highlighting fast, private, and hardware-efficient intelligence.
