Tesla resumes development of Dojo3 supercomputer after pause in project
By ForGeeks
Ilon Musk announced on social networking site X that Tesla is resuming work on Dojo3 — the third generation of the company’s own supercomputer. The Dojo team was disbanded last year when Tesla decided to focus on AI chips used directly in cars. Musk said a return to the project was possible «now that the AI5 chip design is in good shape».
The Dojo project is designed to process video footage and other data collected by Tesla cars in order to train the neural network underlying the Full Self-Driving system. However, Musk wrote last year that it didn’t make sense for the company to spread its resources to develop two different AI chip architectures at the same time. At the time, he claimed that Tesla’s AI5, AI6 and beyond chips would be great for inferencing and good enough — for training, so all efforts were focused on them.
Tesla’s AI5, AI6 and beyond will be great for inferencing and good enough — for training, so all efforts were focused on those.
The chips in question are chips designed to run the FSD system directly on board Tesla cars. They’re not optimized for training neural networks in data centers. The AI6-generation chips are expected to be manufactured by Samsung at its Texas plant as part of a $16 billion agreement with Tesla.
The chips are expected to be manufactured by Samsung at its Texas plant as part of a $16 billion agreement with Tesla.
