Tesla breaks the team behind its Dojo supercomputerFinishing the driver’s play at developing inland chips for driverless technology, according to Bloomberg.
Dojo’s leader, Peter Bannon, leaves the company, and the remaining Samideans will be reassigned to other data centers and computing projects within Tesla, according to Bloomberg’s reporting, which cited anonymous sources.
The separation of Tesla’s Dolopods follow the departure of about 20 workers who left the car to begin their own AI -Company called Density. The new startup is reportedly coming out of stealing soon and build chips, hardware and programs that will operate data centers for AI, which are used in robotics, AI agents, and in car applications. Density was founded by a former dojo -head Ganesh Venkataramanan and ex-Tesla employees Bill Chang and Ben Floering.
It also comes in core time for Tesla.
CEO Elon Musk pushed Get shareholders to see Tesla like AI and a robotic company, despite a limited robotaxi launch in Austin this -passed June, which featured models Y -vehicles with a man in the previous passenger seat and resulted in some reported incidents of the vehicles displaying problematic driving behavior.
Tesla’s decision to close Dojo, which Musk has spoken since 2019, is a major change in strategy. CEO Elon Musk said Dojo would be the corner of Tesla’s AI ambitions and its goal of achieving full self-drive because of its ability to “process really wide amounts of video data.” He talked about Dojo, though briefly, as recently as the company’s second-quarter income.
In 2023, Morgan Stanley predicted that Dojo could add $ 500 billion to the company’s market value by unlocking new revenue currents in the form of robotaxis and software services. Just last year, Musk noticed that Tesla’s AI team would “Double“On a Dojo in the lead to Tesla’s robotaxi reveals, which took place in October.
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But talk about Dojo stopped around August 2024, when Musk started throwing a courtyard instead, Tesla’s “giant new AI training built at Tesla HQ in Austin to solve real-world AI.”
The Dojo project was one part supercomputer, one part in-house rag. Tesla revealed his D1 chip when it formally announced Dojo at its first AI day in 2021. Venkataramanan Presented the chip that Tesla said it would be used in conjunction with GPU from NVIDIA to operate the Dojo supercomputer. The motorist also said it is working on a follow-up-gene D2 chip that will solve any information flow bottles of its predecessor.
Sources told Bloomberg that Tesla is now planning to increase his faith in Nvidia, as well as other external technology partners such as AMD for Compute and Samsung for manufacturing rags. Tesla last month signed a $ 16.5 billion treatment with Samsung To make their AI6-inference chips, a rag design, which promises to scale from operating FSD and Tesla Optimus humanoid robots to the high performance AI training in data centers.
During Tesla’s second-quarter, Musk alluded to possible layoffs.
“Thinking of Dojo 3 and the AI6 innovation chip, it seems like intuitively, we want to try to find a convergence where it is essentially the same chip,” Musk said.
The news comes as The Tesla Board offers Musk a $ 29 billion payment package Keep him at Tesla and help push the company’s AI efforts, instead of being too seated by his other companies, including the cleaner-playing AI-starting XAI.
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