MEXICO CITY, May 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 19, 2026, amid the growing excitement for the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, GAC officially announced a two-year strategic partnership with Deportivo Toluca Fútbol Club, a legendary club in Mexican football. GAC became the official partner of Toluca FC. This partnership marks a key move in GAC's global sports marketing strategy across the Americas ahead of the 2026 World Cup, further strengthening the brand's local market presence and global footprint in core markets of the Americas.
Toluca FC is an iconic club with a rich history and competitive strength in Mexican football, since its founding in 1917, the club's values of excellence, discipline, resilience, and a winning mindset align closely with GAC's brand philosophy of quality first, innovation-driven, and pursuit of high performance. As a well-recognized Chinese automotive brand in the Mexican market, GAC joins hands with Toluca FC in a powerful collaboration between a leader in the automotive industry and a champion team in football, opening a new chapter of cross-industry partnership driven by shared aspirations.
Through this collaboration, the two parties will jointly develop brand exposure initiatives, exclusive fan experiences and special events. By engaging local user groups in a more approachable and authentic manner, they will forge deep connections with millions of football fans. Leveraging football as a cultural platform beloved across Mexico, GAC will achieve full-coverage brand reach, further strengthen its premium, reliable, and innovative brand image in Mexico, and complete the crucial transition from "market entry" to "brand localization".
The partnership with Toluca FC is another important milestone following GAC's sports collaborations in key Latin American markets including Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, and Uruguay. GAC has now built a sports marketing matrix covering Latin America and linking the world, shifting from single-point sponsorship to a coordinated global sports ecosystem. By continuously expanding its brand footprint and enhancing its Latin American sports marketing matrix, GAC deepens emotional connections with local consumers and steadily elevates its global brand influence.
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Bonded by Football, Fueled by a Common Vision of Excellence: GAC Announces Strategic Partnership with Toluca FC
HANGZHOU, China, May 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Hikvision has announced the launch of Guanlan Encoding, an AI-powered video compression technology that delivers 30%–50% average storage savings without compromising critical footage quality.
As resolutions climb, channel counts expand, and retention periods extend, storage has become one of the dominant cost drivers in video security. Guanlan Encoding is built on the H.265 international standard and is powered by Hikvision's Guanlan Large-Scale AI Model. It extends Guanlan from video analytics into the encoding pipeline.
In security deployments, especially those of substantial scale, Guanlan Encoding can halve HDD requirements and rack space while significantly reducing long-term power consumption – lowering total cost of ownership across the project lifecycle.
Keep the focus, cut the storage
Conventional codecs treat every pixel equally, forcing operators to choose between higher-definition imagery and more efficient storage. Guanlan Encoding eliminates that dilemma. It identifies key objects in a scene – such as people and vehicles – and preserves them at full clarity through precision Region of Interest (ROI) segmentation, while ultra-compressing redundant background data.
"Storage efficiency has almost always come at the cost of quality – until now," said Jason Yang, Vice President of Hikvision International Business Center. "Guanlan Encoding looks at the picture first – then decides what's worth keeping in full clarity."
The technology combines two complementary modes. Dynamic Sensing adapts bitrate allocation in real time to preserve detail in complex, fast-moving scenes. Static Optimization applies ultra-high compression to still or low-motion footage, reducing some frames to just a few dozen bytes. Together, they shift video encoding from a one-size-fits-all solution toward an intelligent, encode-on-demand approach.
Tested across various scenes
Internal comparative tests between conventional H.265 and Guanlan Encoding confirm consistent bitrate savings:
- Canteen (24 hours): 49% savings across full-day traffic fluctuations
- Office park entrance (30 minutes): 42% savings during peak traffic
- Corporate lobby (2 hours): 38% savings in a standard indoor environment
- Busy commercial street (1 hour): 18% savings in a high-complexity, high-activity scene
Standards-compliant, zero migration
Because Guanlan Encoding is built on H.265, it works seamlessly with existing H.265 decoders, Hikvision and third-party devices, and supports advanced AI analytics. Encoding format, frame rate, and resolution remain unchanged – making adoption straightforward for both new and existing projects.
Available across Hikvision's product lines
Guanlan Encoding is supported on Hikvision DeepinView(X)-Series Network and PTZ Cameras, Ultra-Series Cameras, Cameras with ColorVu 3.0, and DVRs, with continued expansion to more product lines. The technology is suited to a broad range of environments, from enterprise campuses and retail chains to public venues and critical facilities.
By embedding AI directly into the codec, Guanlan Encoding marks a step toward a future where every byte of video is captured, compressed, and stored with intent. This is the shift from compression by pixel to compression by meaning. To learn more, visit the Guanlan Encoding webpage, or contact your regional Hikvision representative to schedule a live demo.
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Hikvision brings AI to video compression with Guanlan Encoding, cutting storage costs by up to 50%
