Tesla's Head of Dojo Supercomputer Departs Amid Next-Gen Issues
Peter Bannon, former Apple executive, takes over as the project lead
- Ganesh Venkataramanan, Tesla’s head of Dojo supercomputer hardware, has left the company.
- Rumors suggest that Venkataramanan was let go due to issues with the next generation of the supercomputer, Dojo 2, not meeting expectations.
- Peter Bannon, a former Apple executive and director at Tesla for the last seven years, is now leading the project.
- The Dojo supercomputer is designed to process vast amounts of data and video from Tesla cars to train the automaker's autonomous-driving software.
- Tesla plans to spend more than $1 billion on Dojo through the next year.