Tesla Dojo the rise and fall of Elon Musks AI supercomputer | TechCrunch

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  • Dojo was Tesla’s custom-built supercomputer that was designed to train its “Full Self-Driving” neural networks.
  • Tesla disbanded its Dojo team and shut down the project in mid-August 2025.
  • The shutdown came a couple of weeks after Tesla signed a $16.5 billion deal to get its next-generation AI6 chips from Samsung.
  • Most other companies building autonomous cars rely on a combination of sensors to perceive the world.
  • Tesla believes it can achieve fully autonomous driving by relying on visual data alone.
For years, Elon Musk has spoken of the promise of Dojo, the AI supercomputer that was supposed to be the cornerstone of Teslas AI ambitions. It was important enough to Musk that in July 2024, he said [+13674 chars]

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