Hyundai Motor Group Unveils Pleos Connect Infotainment with AI and Open App Market
Hyundai Motor Group has introduced Pleos Connect, a next-generation infotainment system with an AI voice assistant and an app marketplace, launching in May on the GRANDEUR in Korea.
- 20 million
What Happened
Hyundai Motor Group unveiled Pleos Connect, a next-generation in-vehicle infotainment system designed to transform the customer mobility experience. The system is built on three pillars: intuitiveness, safety, and openness, and features over-the-air update capability.
Production-ready system unveiled at UX Studio Seoul
First vehicle (GRANDEUR) launch in Korea
“Pleos Connect is a next-generation infotainment system that offers customers an elevated mobility experience by combining a mobile-friendly platform with advanced AI technology. With the new Gleo AI and an open app market, users will experience the limitless potential of future mobility.”
- Context-aware AI voice assistant Gleo with multi-command and web search
- Data-driven navigation with modular interface and real-time route guidance
- App Market with third-party services like YouTube, Spotify, and NAVER
- Zone-specific voice recognition for each seat
20 millionvehicles
Hyundai Motor Group aims to equip 20 million Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis vehicles with Pleos Connect by 2030.
Why this matters
This marks Hyundai's first step toward software-defined vehicles, with a plan to equip 20 million vehicles by 2030 and eventually evolve into AI-defined vehicles.
Terms in This Story
- OTA (over-the-air)
- Wireless updates delivered to a vehicle's software without needing a physical connection.
- SDV (software-defined vehicle)
- A vehicle whose features and functions are primarily controlled by software rather than hardware.
- AIDV (artificial intelligence-defined vehicle)
- An evolution of SDV where AI plays a central role in defining vehicle capabilities and interactions.
- LLM (large language model)
- An AI model trained on vast text data to understand and generate human-like language.
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