A $ 500 million project. Announced by the Bloomberg media, then confirmed by Elon Musk, the “Dojo” supermarket project is definitively buried by Tesla. Dojo was an ambitious project launched in 2021 in Texas.
The goal for Elon Musk was to have his own supercomputer, lead to autonomous driving (“Autopilot” and “Complete driving”)) of his Tesla vehicles. The structure should also be used for the development of its optimal humanoid robots. The eccentric billionaire even planned to turn it into one of the five most powerful supercomputers in the world.
A return to associations
Maybe Elon Musk saw too big. Cell with competition in terms of computational power, the company was forced to bow. Tesla plans to go through external companies such as AMD or NVIDIA to provide the necessary equipment to train their machines.
Elon Musk admitted this fault in the half word in X. By not continuing the construction of his supermarket, the billionaire wants to concentrate the company’s activities on the development of electronic fleas, which will integrate its Tesla cars. “All efforts focus on this,” said the billionaire.
Tesla recently signed an agreement of $ 16.5 billion with Samsung to produce its future generation of fleas AI6. The contract must last until 2033.
Registration to discomfort
The brutal trial of this project leads to its fall to the dissolution of the Dojo team. According to Bloomberg, employees will be reallocated to other company positions, dedicated to the development of data centers. The event will also mark the departure of one of its vice presidents, Peter Bannon, a former Apple who came to Tesla in 2016.
Even so, according to Bloomberg, 20 employees had left the Dojo team to create, on the other hand, their own company called Densitseai. A company that ironically predicts enough to develop solutions to train the AI of autonomous vehicles and robots.
Source: BFM TV
