From DatacenterDynamics, August 7:
Morgan Stanley once claimed Dojo was worth $500bn
Tesla is dissolving its Dojo supercomputer team, as it looks to use Nvidia, AMD, and Samsung chips.
The company's Dojo head, Peter Bannon, has left the company, while CEO Elon Musk has ordered the program to be shut down, Bloomberg reports.
Around 20 employees on the team recently left for DensityAI, a newly formed startup headed by Ganesh Venkataramanan, who previously oversaw the Dojo supercomputer and D1 chip before leaving in 2023. DensityAI plans to develop its own data center chips.
Remaining Dojo workers will be reassigned to other data center and compute projects within Tesla.
The Dojo supercomputer and D1 chip are a custom-built system for processing videos from Tesla cars and training its autonomous fleet ambitions. It was also set to be used for the company's Optimus humanoid robot....
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