US EditionTesla Shuts Down Dojo Supercomputer Team, Reassigns Workers Amid Strategic AI Shift, Bloomberg News Reports
SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, AUG 7 – Tesla ends its in-house AI chip project after losing 20 engineers to a new startup and secures a $16.5 billion chip manufacturing deal with Samsung Electronics through 2033.
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk ordered the shutdown of the Dojo supercomputer team on a recent Thursday, ending its in-house AI chip development efforts.
- This decision follows years of project delays, a mass departure of around 20 Dojo workers to the startup DensityAI, and the departure of team leader Peter Bannon in 2023.
- The Dojo supercomputer, created to handle video data from Tesla electric vehicles for training their self-driving AI, is being shut down, and the remaining team members are being redeployed within Tesla to work on different data center and computing initiatives.
- Last month, Tesla finalized an agreement valued at $16.5 billion with Samsung to obtain AI chips, while Musk ruled out merging Tesla with his AI startup xAI, which purchased X for $33 billion in March.
- The shutdown signals a strategic shift with Tesla relying more on external partners like Samsung, Nvidia, and AMD amid ongoing restructuring and challenges scaling its robotaxi service.
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Tesla shuts down Dojo supercomputer team, reassigns workers amid AI shift
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ordered the shut down of its Dojo supercomputer team, with team leader Peter Bannon departing the company, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Tesla shuts down Dojo, the AI training supercomputer that Musk said would be key to full self-driving
The disbanding of Tesla’s Dojo efforts follows the departure of around 20 workers, who left the automaker to start their own AI company dubbed DensityAI focused on data center services for industries.
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