Tesla shuts down Dojo, the AI training supercomputer that Musk said would be key to full selfdriving | TechCrunch

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  • Dojo’s lead, Peter Bannon, is leaving the company, and the remaining team members will be reassigned to other data center and compute projects within Tesla.
  • The disbanding follows the departure of around 20 workers, who left the automaker to start their own AI company called DensityAI.
  • The new startup is reportedly coming out of stealth soon and is building chips, hardware, and software that will power data centers for AI that are used in robotics, by AI agents, and in automotive applications.
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