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Tesla Ends In-House Dojo Supercomputer Program for External Chip Partnerships

Tesla disbanded its Dojo team, reassigning engineers in a move toward external chipmaking under a $16.5 billion foundry deal.

Tesla Dojo Supercomputer Tile.
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Tesla vehicles line a parking area at the company's Fremont
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Overview

  • Pete Bannon, Tesla’s vice president of hardware design engineering and Dojo project head, departed the company after Elon Musk ordered the program’s shutdown.
  • About 20 former Dojo engineers have left to form DensityAI, a stealth startup developing full-stack AI data-center chips, hardware and software.
  • DensityAI was founded by former Dojo leads Ganesh Venkataramanan, Bill Chang and Ben Floering, and is in talks to raise hundreds of millions in funding.
  • Under a $16.5 billion agreement with Samsung through 2033, Tesla will have its AI6 inference chips manufactured externally to power self-driving and robotics applications.
  • Elon Musk confirmed on X that Tesla will concentrate resources on its AI5 and AI6 chip architectures rather than maintain multiple in-house designs.