Tesla shuts down the team behind its Dojo supercomputer

Tesla is dissolving the squad that was processing its Dojo supercomputer, according to Bloomberg. The change, which reportedly includes the departure of Dojo caput Peter Bannon, marks a notable displacement distant from utilizing in-house exertion to bid the AI models powering Tesla’s self-driving features and its Optimus humanoid robot.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk archetypal introduced Dojo successful 2019, which helium described arsenic a “super almighty grooming computer” susceptible of processing heaps of conveyance video information that it uses to bid AI chips. Bloomberg says Tesla present plans to spouse with Nvidia and AMD for compute, portion turning to Samsung for spot manufacturing.

Last month, Musk announced that Tesla struck a $16.5 cardinal woody with Samsung to make the automaker’s next-generation AI6 chip. In effect to Bloomberg’s reporting, Musk wrote connected X that the “Tesla AI5, AI6 and consequent chips volition beryllium fantabulous for inference and astatine slightest beauteous bully for training. All effort is focused connected that.”

The team’s disbandment comes astatine a pivotal clip for Tesla, which has conscionable rolled retired its robotaxi work successful Austin, Texas, with a information monitor successful the rider seat. Its consequent motorboat successful San Francisco puts a quality astatine the wheel, a determination that contradicts Musk’s committedness of having “no 1 successful the car.”

Tesla’s Dojo squad already took a large deed earlier this month, erstwhile Bloomberg reported that astir 20 members near the institution to commencement DensityAI, a startup “focused connected information halfway services for industries from automotive to robotics.” The automaker shifted its remaining Dojo employees to different areas of the company, according to Bloomberg.