Tesla has disbanded its in-house Dojo supercomputer team as part of a strategic shift in its artificial intelligence efforts. According to Bloomberg News, sources revealed that CEO Elon Musk ordered the closure, with team leader Peter Bannon exiting the company.
Dojo, a custom-built AI supercomputer project, was aimed at training Tesla’s self-driving neural networks at unprecedented scale. The move marks a significant pivot in Tesla’s AI roadmap, as the company now plans to streamline its chip research and focus primarily on developing inference chips—hardware designed to run AI models and make real-time driving decisions, rather than solely training them.
Musk explained that while Dojo was an ambitious and valuable undertaking, the company sees greater near-term impact from advancing inference chip technology, which directly supports Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) system and other real-time AI applications.
The restructuring will reassign existing Dojo team members to other AI and hardware projects within Tesla, ensuring that their expertise continues to benefit the company’s broader autonomous driving and AI goals.
The decision reflects Tesla’s pragmatic approach to AI investments, prioritizing technologies with immediate product impact over large-scale training systems that may take years to deliver commercial returns.
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