Tesla Invests Billions in AI Hardware from Nvidia and AMD, Despite 'Long Shot' Dojo Supercomputer

Elon Musk confirms Tesla's multi-billion dollar investment in AI processors, including a $500 million Dojo supercomputer cluster in New York and significant spending on Nvidia's hardware.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed that the company is procuring artificial intelligence (AI) processors worth billions of dollars for its AI training workloads, including hardware from Nvidia and AMD.
Tesla is investing over $500 million in a new Dojo supercomputer cluster at its Gigafactory in New York, despite Musk describing the project as a 'long shot' with a 'not a high probability' of success.
Musk stated that Tesla will spend more on Nvidia's hardware than on the Dojo supercomputer, and also confirmed that the company will start buying hardware from AMD.
The Dojo supercomputer is designed to train AI with videos and is particularly aimed at advancing Tesla's autonomous driving system.
Musk emphasized that the 'table stakes for being competitive in AI are at least several billion dollars per year at this point.'