Tesla Shuts Down In-house Dojo Ai Supercomputer Project

As first reported by Bloomberg, Tesla is disbanding nan squad down Dojo, its in-house AI-training supercomputer, and reassigning remaining unit to different projects wrong nan company. This marks a displacement successful nan company's compute sourcing strategy for its AI-focused initiatives specified arsenic autonomous driving and nan Optimus robot. Head of Dojo Peter Bannon is leaving Tesla, which is nan latest departure aft astir 20 Dojo squad members precocious near to shape DensityAI.

In a consequence to nan Bloomberg study connected X, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said, "It doesn’t make consciousness for Tesla to disagreement its resources and standard 2 rather different AI spot designs. The Tesla AI5, AI6 and consequent chips will beryllium fantabulous for conclusion and astatine slightest beautiful bully for training. All effort is focused connected that."

Musk is referring to Tesla's next-generation AI6 spot that will beryllium made by Samsung pursuing a $16.5 cardinal deal. These chips will thrust nan real-time decision-making onboard Tesla vehicles and robots. Shutting down Dojo efficaciously ends Tesla's long-shot ambition of creating its ain in-house training architecture and consolidates nan company's efforts connected nan AI5 and AI6 platforms.

While Musk says these chips are "pretty good" for training, nan institution will now trust heavy connected vendors for illustration NVIDIA for training-specific silicon, and is spending billions connected those chips. AI5 accumulation is targeted to begin successful 2026 pinch AI6 to follow.

Like nan remainder of nan large tech world, Musk's companies person been connected an AI tear, pinch xAI's Grok chatbot now available successful Tesla vehicles. The institution is besides piloting its Robotaxi fleet to mixed results.