Tesla shuts down in-house Dojo AI supercomputer project

Tesla is shutting down its in-house Dojo AI supercomputer project, a shift in the company's compute sourcing strategy for its AI-focused initiatives. The team behind Dojo is being disbanded, and remaining staff are being reassigned to other projects within the company. Tesla CEO Elon Musk cited the need to consolidate the company's efforts on its next-generation AI5 and AI6 chips, which will be made by Samsung and used for real-time decision-making in Tesla vehicles and robots. The company will now rely more on vendors like NVIDIA for training-specific silicon, spending billions on those chips. Despite the shutdown of Dojo, Musk says the upcoming AI5 and AI6 chips will be "excellent for inference and at least pretty good for training." This move marks the end of Tesla's long-shot ambition of creating its own in-house training architecture and reflects the company's focus on commercializing its AI capabilities for its products.