Tesla dismantling the team behind Dojo SuperCantThe auto industry game ends the development of the internal chips of a driver without a driver, according to Bloomberg.
Peter Bannon, Dogo’s leadership, leaves the company, and the remaining team members will be reset to another data center and the project account inside Tesla, in Bloomberg’s reports, which were martyred with unknown sources.
The solution of Dojo’s efforts in Tesla follows the departure of about 20 workers, who left the auto industry to start Artificial Intelligence Company is called Mensei. According to the new startup starting from the hidden soon, it builds chips, devices and programs that will operate the AI’s data centers that are used in robots, by artificial intelligence agents, and in car applications. Dengeenyai was founded by the former dojo head Gunish Venkataramannan And former employees in Tesla Bill Chang and Ben.
It also comes in a decisive time to Tasla.
CEO Illon Musk pushed To make shareholders look at Tesla as AI and Robotics, although Robotaxi’s limited Robotaxi launch in Austin last June, which included model Y with a person in the front passenger seat and resulted in a number of incidents reported in vehicles that show the behavior of the formed driving.
Tesla’s decision to close Dogo, which Musk has been talking about since 2019 is a major shift in the strategy. Musk said that Dojo will be the cornerstone of Tesla aspirations in artificial intelligence and its goal is to reach full self -driving due to its ability to “process massive quantities of video data.” He talked about Dogo, albeit shortly, recently as the company’s profit call in the second quarter.
In 2023, Morgan Stanley expected Dogo to add $ 500 billion to the company’s market value by opening new revenue flows in the form of robotics and software services. Only last year, Musk indicated that the Tesla’s AI “teamDouble downAli Dogo in the previous period It reveals Tesla’s Robotaxi, What happened in October.
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But he talked about Dojo stopped around August 2024, when Musk began describing Cortex instead, “Tesla New Ai Traaining Supercluster Supercluster in Tesla was built in Austin to solve real artificial intelligence.”
The Dojo project was part of the super computers, and one part of the company. Tesla revealed her D1 chip when she officially announced Dojo on the first day of AI in 2021. Vinkataramannan The chip, which Tesla said, was used alongside the NVIDIA graphics unit to run Dojo Supercant. The auto industry also said it is working on the D2 chip of the next generation that would solve any convenience of information flow to its predecessor.
Sources told Bloomberg that Tesla is now planning to increase its dependence on NVIDIA, as well as other external technology partners such as AMD for Compute and Samsung to manufacture chips. Tesla fell last month a 16.5 billion dollars deal with Samsung To make the AI6 inference chips, the design of the dance is an expansion of the operation of the FSD and Tesla robots along the way to high -performance training in databases.
During the Tesla profit call in the second quarter, Musk alluded to possible repetition.
“Thinking about Dojo 3 and the AI6 inference slide, it seems intuitively, we want to try to find rapprochement there, as it is basically the same slide,” Musk said.
The news comes The Tesla Musk plate offers a $ 29 billion payment package To keep it in Tesla and help pushing the company’s efforts forward, rather than being exposed to the transition from other companies, including the most formulated AI from artificial intelligence.
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