(Breitbart)—Elon Musk’s Tesla is disbanding its Dojo supercomputer team and its leader will leave the company, according to people familiar with the matter, marking a major shift in the automaker’s effort to develop advanced AI technology in-house for its driverless vehicles.
Bloomberg reports that Tesla is dissolving its Dojo supercomputer team, according to sources close to the matter. The move comes as a surprise, given the central role Dojo was expected to play in Tesla’s multibillion-dollar push to gain an edge in the AI race.
Peter Bannon, who spearheaded the Dojo project, is set to depart from the company following Elon Musk’s decision to shut down the initiative. The remaining members of the Dojo team, which recently lost around 20 employees to the newly established DensityAI, are being reassigned to other data center and computing projects within Tesla.
The disbanding of the Dojo team signals a strategic shift for Tesla, which had positioned the in-house supercomputer as a crucial component in developing the machine-learning models powering its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems, as well as the Optimus humanoid robot. Dojo, based on Tesla’s custom D1 chip, was designed to rapidly process vast amounts of video data captured by the company’s vehicles to enhance its AI algorithms.
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