Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ordered to close down its Dojo supercomputer workforce, with workforce chief Peter Bannon departing the corporate, Bloomberg Information reported on Thursday, citing individuals aware of the matter.
The Dojo supercomputer was designed to course of huge quantities of information and video from Tesla EVs to coach the automaker’s autonomous-driving software program.
The workforce just lately misplaced about 20 employees to newly fashioned DensityAI, and the remaining Dojo employees are being reassigned to different information heart and compute initiatives inside Tesla, the report stated.
Reuters couldn’t independently confirm the report.
Over the previous yr, Tesla, amid a company-wide restructuring, skilled a number of govt departures and hundreds of job cuts. A number of key Tesla executives, together with leaders in robotics, battery improvement, and public coverage, have just lately departed.
Tesla has redirected its focus to AI-driven self-driving know-how and robotics, with CEO Elon Musk pursuing an integration technique throughout his enterprise empire. In March, xAI acquired the social media platform X for $33 billion to bolster its chatbot coaching capabilities, whereas Tesla built-in the Grok chatbot into its autos.
In July, Musk dismissed the opportunity of a merger between Tesla and xAI, however introduced plans for a shareholder vote to contemplate Tesla’s funding within the AI startup.
The automaker additionally plans to extend its reliance on exterior know-how companions corresponding to Nvidia and Superior Micro Units for compute, and Samsung Electronics for chip manufacturing, as per Bloomberg.
Tesla, Nvidia, AMD and Samsung didn’t instantly reply to Reuters requests for remark.
Final month, Samsung secured a $16.5 billion deal to produce AI chips to Tesla, anticipated to energy self-driving vehicles, humanoid robots and information facilities. The deal is unlikely to resolve Tesla’s speedy challenges, corresponding to declining EV gross sales and efforts to scale its fledgling robotaxi service.
