As first reported by Bloomberg, Tesla is disbanding the group behind Dojo, its in-house AI-training supercomputer, and reassigning remaining employees to different initiatives throughout the firm. This marks a shift within the firm's compute sourcing technique for its AI-focused initiatives resembling autonomous driving and the Optimus robotic. Head of Dojo Peter Bannon is leaving Tesla, which is the newest departure after roughly 20 Dojo group members not too long ago left to type DensityAI.
In a response to the Bloomberg report on X, Tesla CEO Elon Musk stated, "It doesn’t make sense for Tesla to divide its assets and scale two fairly totally different AI chip designs. The Tesla AI5, AI6 and subsequent chips shall be wonderful for inference and no less than fairly good for coaching. All effort is targeted on that."
Musk is referring to Tesla's next-generation AI6 chip that shall be made by Samsung following a $16.5 billion deal. These chips will drive the real-time decision-making onboard Tesla autos and robots. Shutting down Dojo successfully ends Tesla's long-shot ambition of making its personal in-house coaching structure and consolidates the corporate's efforts on the AI5 and AI6 platforms.
Whereas Musk says these chips are "fairly good" for coaching, the corporate will now rely closely on distributors like NVIDIA for training-specific silicon, and is spending billions on these chips. AI5 manufacturing is focused to start in 2026 with AI6 to comply with.
Like the remainder of the large tech world, Musk's corporations have been on an AI tear, with xAI's Grok chatbot now accessible in Tesla autos. The corporate can be piloting its Robotaxi fleet to blended outcomes.
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