XOS 6.3.0 Begins Rollout: VLA 2.0 Lite Reaches Turing Max Cars

XPeng has begun the first rollout of XOS 6.3.0. The announcement came from XP-Candice婷婷, and the shape of it matters for anyone trying to work out what their car will actually get: this release does not hand the same software to everyone. It splits by hardware tier.

Who gets what

• Ultra and Ultra SE owners get a cabin and assisted-driving architecture refresh — the deepest change in the release.
• Turing Max owners get VLA 2.0 Lite, which XPeng describes as opening a new assisted-driving experience on that hardware.

The post is a short one from a company staffer, so the specifics come from XPeng's own release posters and the coverage of them: the rollout starts today, 17 September, and goes out progressively rather than all at once.

On Ultra: Omni, and a Master Agent that comes onboard

The headline change for the top tier is the AI Xiao P underlying architecture being upgraded to the Omni multimodal model. On top of that multimodal base, XPeng is putting an onboard Master Agent into production — deployed "end-cloud same-source", meaning the same model family runs in the cloud and on the car rather than two different stacks.

The user-facing version of that: one sentence can carry a more complex request, and conversation and vehicle commands flow together naturally instead of being separate modes.

On Turing Max: VLA 2.0 Lite is the big one

This is the first mass-production rollout of VLA 2.0 Lite to single-Turing Max cars. Lite is distilled from the high-end Turing VLA 2.0 — the capabilities the bigger model learned, refined and compressed so they can run on a platform with less compute. The result XPeng is claiming for those cars:

• the NGP underlying model jumps from the previous generation to the second-generation VLA architecture;
• NGP comfort improves further, complex scenes are handled more decisively, and trajectories are more natural;
• overall assisted-driving feel moves closer to the high-end version.

What owners will actually notice

Two clusters of changes stand out beyond the architecture work.

Voice and driving are now connected. You can say "pull over just up ahead" or "find a parking spot up front", and Xiao P interprets the request and works with NGP to complete a pull-over or a nearby park-in when conditions allow.

Parking gets the rest of the list: an improved parking-spot-to-parking-spot experience with smoother driving and a higher success rate linking inside and outside park areas; easier favouriting of spaces; park roaming using the indicator stalk to steer through garages; nose-in parking and tail-out; and the ability to switch to exit-and-park mid-manoeuvre.

On the cockpit side, the release brings back the much-requested split-screen, adds CarPlay, and supports a full-screen pull-down control centre.

The context worth keeping straight

Two things are easy to conflate here:

1. This rollout is about single-Turing Max, not dual Orin. The dual Orin X distilled build is a separate track that XPeng says has reached breakthrough progress and internal testing — but it is not what is going out tonight.
2. Much of this was already visible. The circulating XOS 6.3.0.8907 changelog we covered in full listed pull-over on navigation, nearby park-in, nose-in/tail-out, mid-manoeuvre exit-and-park, split-screen, CarPlay and the control-centre redesign. This rollout is that changelog arriving on cars.

There is also a Mid-Autumn giveaway attached to the post — 15 gifts drawn from followers who repost and comment, mailed from 21 September — which tells you the intended audience as much as the technical content does: this is a community-facing announcement, not an engineering paper.

Source: XP-Candice婷婷 on Weibo, 17 September 2026 — translated and adapted for XPENGTech. Rollout details via Autohome's report on the release. Related reading on this site: the XOS 6.3.0.8907 changelog and the dual-Orin VLA distilled build first drive.

The original post also includes four animated screen recordings: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4.