(Bloomberg) – Tesla Inc. (TSLA) dissolves its Dojo team and its leader will leave the company, according to people familiar with the issue, overthrowing the automotive manufacturer’s efforts to build an internal supercomputer to develop driver -free vehicle technology.
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Peter Bannon, who directed Dojo, leaves and the chief executive Elon Musk ordered the closure of the effort, according to people, who asked not to be identified to discuss internal questions. The team recently lost around 20 workers against newly trained Densityai, and remaining dojo workers are reassigned to another data center and calculate projects within Tesla, people said.
Tesla plans to increase its dependence on external technological partners, in particular Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. for Compute and Samsung Electronics Co. (005930.KS) for the manufacture of fleas, said the people.
The order of Musk marks a major change for a program of years in preparation, with Dojo once positioned as central of the effort of several billion dollars of Tesla to advance in the artificial intelligence race. Tesla and Bannon did not respond to requests for comments.
After Bloomberg News reported the developments for the first time, Musk confirmed Tesla’s change of approach, writing on X that the new generation IA chips that entered the company’s vehicles “will be excellent for inference and at least good enough for training. All the effort is focused on this. ”
Tesla shares dropped up to 0.7% at 4 a.m. on Friday in New York, before the start of regular exchanges. The stock dropped by 20% this year.
Dojo is a supercomputer designed by Tesla used to train automatic learning models behind the electric manufacturer’s automatic driver and independent complete systems, as well as its Humanoid Optimus robot. It is based on a personalized internal chip known as D1 and was to be used in the formation of AI models.
The computer takes video data captured by vehicles and processes it quickly to improve business algorithms. Analysts said that Dojo could be a key competitive advantage, Morgan Stanley believing in 2023 that he could possibly add $ 500 billion to Tesla’s market value.
Densityai, which is about to get out of stealth soon, works on fleas, hardware and software that will feed data centers for AI that are used in robotics, by AI agents and for car applications, among other sectors, Bloomberg reported this week. The company was founded by Ganesh Venkataramanan, the former Dojo chief, and the former employees of Tesla, Bill Chang and Ben Floring.
