It's the first time in the history of the world.
Paris in the autumn of 2026 will be mild.
AIVA's first mass-produced car, the AIVA ME7, completed its world premiere during Paris Fashion Week.
Later that evening, AIVA president, product manager Li Bo, and fashion media group's chief brand operations officer, Shao Xiaoming, supermodel Liu Xiaoming, fashion designer Chen Xiaoming, and well-known business finance blogger, Lin Lin said they were sitting around.
Interestingly, at the debut of the car brand, there were no car reviewers on the stage, no talking about duration and acceleration, but instead talking about a topic: how AI really comes into life, how it should interact with people.
The whole design show went on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on.
This is the difference between two species: tools are used by humans and organisms are responded to by humans.
If a car could see you, respond to you, maybe AI would go from a tool to a sentient organism.
AIVA ME7 puts this drop point on the eye so that it shines brightly.
Libo's explanation is also straightforward: "The eyes are the windows of the mind. If we put the eyes on the car, then we see the eyes of the car, which naturally should be where the traditional headlights were before".
He immediately added a sentence that actually broke AIVA's entire design philosophy: "It's not our intentional design, but from the point of view that life needs this interaction, and it should have been there".
Putting these two phrases together, the full meaning of AIVA's choice is clear: it's not just a new addition to the functionality list, it's the starting point of human-vehicle relationships. It doesn't require you to learn anything, it just transfers the most intuitive way of confirming people-to-people interactions to the car.
The logic is clearer from the point of view of the photograph: "Clothes and hair are fine, but if his eyes do not communicate, then the picture is still a state of stillness, and once the eyes have a response, the whole person, because I am this form of the picture, will become very lively".
The same logic is used in the car. In the live demonstration: Libo approaches, and Ling Ling first welcomes the guest; Liu Xiaobi, and Ling Ling also returns a love; Shao Young praises, and Ling Ling follows the star-shaped eyes.
Lin concludes: "For a lot of ordinary people, it's what you can really feel, that this AI has become real".
The phrase highlights the significance of "response": human judgments of "animals" are never complex, but response.
When the entire AI narrative is limited to the ability to talk, AIVA chooses the most basic coordinate response to be told and the response to be felt.
The meaning of dynamic lighting is to take AI out of the parameters table and put it in front of the simplest criteria: "Does it respond to me?"
It doesn't steal, it doesn't make noise, but it responds exactly when you need it.
Compared to the Ling Ling, the car really deserves the industry's attention because it takes AI as the foundation of its design: every shape responds to AI's needs rather than placing AI in its existing form.
Lee said: "The first thing we need to figure out is what AI cars do for people".
And then there's the whole idea: "If AI is going to be able to better perceive people, understand people, and serve people, and at the same time, help them, what kind of capabilities AI needs, then this car is going to be able to create a space where we can, from the inside out, think about the inner space, and then we're going to see what that car should look like".
"AI defines a car, AI comes first, and cars come after" is the same as changing the definition of a product from "what a car should look like" to "what an AI should do for people".
There are very few domestic car companies that dare to define a product like this, but the route itself is the biggest original of this car.
Where did that look come from? AIVA worked with AI to find answers to nature.
"What we observe in nature is that the form of living things always serves a function, and each structure carries a corresponding function, and that sense of beauty is not deliberately carved out, but grows naturally in certain structures and forms under strict constraints... which in biology is called convergent evolution".
Li Bo cites the example of sharks and dolphins: "One is a cartilaginous fish, the other is a mammal, of completely different origin, but must resist water resistance and eventually evolve into a nearly uniform streamlined organism".
The same goes for AIVA ME7.
"It must be accompanied by the flexibility of this space inside, this sense of space, which we have just mentioned, while also overcoming air resistance, and it must pass on this flexibility in the course of driving, making people willing to live with it, and the proportions, curves and overall atmosphere of the body must be pulled around these constraints repeatedly".
The AIVA ME7's submersible front face, floating streamline body, double-decker tail, all came from this.
So the good looks of this car, not the late ones, are "long" from the inside out. Think about how AI serves people, and then knock on the body a little bit.
From the stunning four-door concept car Origin Concept to the mass-produced AIVA ME7 in front of us today, many people wonder: what did AIVA keep and what did it change?
Libo said that the concept car "wasn't designed to show a very distant idea that had nothing to do with mass production, but under a design aesthetic system like the beauty of life, we explored the possibility of designing the AIVA ME7 for mass production".
From concept cars to mass-produced cars, what I've always wanted to do is "to give people a whole feeling of comfort, a body full of flowing curves, and dynamic neologisms"...
When it comes to concrete performance, we can look at two things. The outline is a contradiction: both to withstand the impact on the road, to ensure strength, to lose weight, to reduce the quality of lead.
AIVA's solution comes from the forked bone in a bird's chest, which is "the smallest amount of bone a bird can carry, the enormous force it exerts when it flies".
Air Dynamics Concept: The concept car phase is about how the wind enters from the head of the car, how it moves from the tail of the car; the mass production structure and curvature must obey regulations, manufacture, and the entire car airflow must be re-polished, and finally land in ten real conductive wind tunnels.
This is what mass production is all about: maintaining the whole design idea, not a catch-all symbol; and not losing the essence even if it exists at a low point in reality.
Chen Yi made three sets of costumes, ideas and car making for AIVA: clothing is the second layer of skin, men's silk and men's clothing show.
He said he saw more of the clothes "not surprising, sometimes scary", but he gave the clothing a second life force and said, "The life force of clothing is to wear".
She also agreed: "I'd rather see this piece worn on ordinary people", and the clothes would look different with the wearer's habits and mood, "and people could really bring this piece to life".
The AIVA ME7 stopped at the Château de Champlain and was an industrial product; people approached, the shadows moved with their feet, the lights responded with their gestures, and the design was finished at that moment.
Liu Xiaobo's first reaction was, "It's mysterious and fascinating, and then you want me to get close to it, and then you want me to get to know it and touch it".
A brand chooses to put the event in Paris, inviting people from the fashion world to witness it, and probably wants to verify the same thing: beauty doesn't look at the carrier, it looks at logic.
It's not a stronger, more audible tool, but a tool that knows when you want to be quiet, you don't have to move it, you don't have to perform.
Libo's expectation for AIVA ME7 is: "It has its own personality, it sees you respond to you, you don't have to migrate, you don't have to perform, and when you're with it, it's a very autonomous state of being yourself".
It also means "Live Alive, Love Freedom", and he said, "We want our users to be alive".
From the logic of AI-based integrated car products, the bi-directional human-vehicle contrast, the body shape that grows naturally from the inside out, to the conceptual vector product transformation that adheres to the design core, and even the philosophy of life that unites with the aesthetics of fashion, thought across the entire chain forms its unique original underpinnings.
The two-way perception at the interactive level gives the product a lively expression of life, while allowing AIVA to exhibit high-end brand tuning, perfectly mapping every detail of the car.