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.