The electrician Tesla Apparently puts his plans for developing one’s own AI chips on ice. The reports the Bloomberg news agency
With reference to insiders. Accordingly, company boss prompted Elon Musk (54) The dissolution of the in-house supercomputer team Dojo. With the supercomputer, huge data and video genids of Tesla vehicles should be processed in order to train the car manufacturer’s software for autonomous driving.
Change in the chip strategy
The responsible project manager of Dojo Peter Bannon leaves the company according to the report. The step is followed by a bloodletting: The start-up Densityai had recently eliminated about 20 employees of the Dojo team.
In the future, Tesla now wants to increasingly with external suppliers such as Nvidia, AMD and Samsung Buy chips and computing power to promote your own AI ambitions. Dojo was considered the central project of the company’s internal AI development. With the dissolution of the team, Tesla is now facing a realignment of his AI strategy.
“It makes no sense for Tesla to split its resources and develop two completely different AI chip designs,” Musk wrote on Thursday to X. In the future, the chip models Tesla AI5, AI6 and subsequent chips will be concentrated. In the center of the Dojo project, on the other hand, was the specially developed D1 chip, which was mainly used for AI training.
Musk had previously stated that the next generation of the next generation should be produced at the end of 2026, and last month a 16.5 billion dollar contract for the Delivery of AI6 chips announced by Samsung Electronics, but without mentioning a schedule for production.
Tesla has a comprehensive restructuring. The share price had broken down last.
The reason for this was the increasing competition in e-mobility as well as the negative reaction in particular European consumers Musk’s political activities.
Several managers left the company, and thousands of jobs had also been canceled.
Paragraph in Germany continues to collapse
In Germany, Tesla slipped ninth for the new registration, as the current Federal Motor Transport Authority show for January to July. The carmaker and, according to KBA statistics, get exactly 10,000 new registrations during this period. If you only look at July, it is only enough for Musk Group who fell unadorned among many customers.