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Tesla Shuts Down Dojo Supercomputer to Consolidate on AI5 and AI6 Chips

Musk said all development paths converged on AI6, prompting Tesla to abandon Dojo in favor of a single chip architecture

Tesla scraps Dojo, pivots to AI6 chip development
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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.