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Tesla Disbands Dojo Team, Shuts In-House Supercomputer Effort

Tesla will reassign its remaining Dojo engineers to other compute projects, relying on NVIDIA, AMD and Samsung for its AI hardware.

Tesla Dojo Supercomputer Tile.
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Overview

  • Elon Musk ordered the disbanding of Tesla’s Dojo supercomputer team, ending its in-house AI training program.
  • Peter Bannon, Tesla’s vice president of hardware design engineering and Dojo project lead, is departing the company.
  • Around 20 Dojo engineers have left Tesla to join DensityAI, a startup founded by former Dojo executives.
  • Remaining Dojo staff will be reassigned to other data center and compute projects within Tesla.
  • Tesla will tap NVIDIA and AMD for AI compute workloads and Samsung, under a $16.5 billion contract, to manufacture its AI6 inference chips through 2033.