Overview
- Elon Musk ordered a halt to dedicated Dojo development this month, leading to the disbanding of the original supercomputer team.
- Tesla will concentrate on its in-vehicle AI5 and AI6 chips for both real-time inferencing and model training tasks.
- About 20 former Dojo engineers, including project lead Peter Bannon, have departed to launch the startup DensityAI.
- The company plans to tap AMD and Nvidia for compute resources while contracting Samsung for chip manufacturing through 2033.
- Musk proposed branding clusters of AI5 and AI6 chips as “Dojo 3” to maintain continuity with the project’s original identity.