Overview
- Elon Musk confirmed on X that he had disbanded the Dojo supercomputer team and shelved the D2-based Dojo 2 project after concluding all paths converged on AI6.
- Tesla will focus its silicon development on the AI5 chip for vehicle inference and the AI6 chip for both inference and large-scale training, with AI5 produced by TSMC and AI6 by Samsung.
- Musk described a successor concept called “Dojo 3” that would consist of boards densely populated with AI6 systems-on-a-chip to simplify cluster deployment.
- Media reports state roughly 20 former Dojo engineers left to join a startup named DensityAI, triggering questions about internal talent retention and leadership changes.
- The Buffalo, New York facility built at an estimated cost of $500 million for Dojo now faces an uncertain fate as Tesla reallocates resources.