Elon Musk confirms shutdown of Tesla Dojo, ‘an evolutionary dead end’ 

Elon Musk confirmed during the weekend that Tesla has dissolved the team that is working on his dojo ai -training -supercomputer, only a few weeks later announcement He expected Tesla’s second cluster to work “to scale” in 2026.

“Once it became clear that all paths came together to AI6, I had to close Dojo and make a number of hard staff choices, because Dojo 2 was now an evolutionary dead -end road,” ” Musk posted on xThe social media platform that he owns on Sunday. “Dojo 3 is demonstrably lives on in the form of a large number of AI6 [systems-on-a-chip] On a single plate. “

After he had brought his first dojo-super computer to life and driven with a mix of NVIDIA GPUs and internal D1 chips, Tesla had plans to build a second dojo factory-by musk as “Dojo 2”-which would have been driven by a second generation of D2 chip.

It seems that the D2 chip has been suspended together with the wider Dojo project, because Tesla is shifting its focus to its AI5 and AI6 chips, which are manufactured by TSMC and Samsung respectively. The AI5 chip is mainly built to provide FSD, Tesla’s Driver Assistance System, while AI6 has been designed for both inference on board-what means self-driving in cars and autonomous possibilities in humanoid robots and large-scale AI training.

“It is not logical for Tesla to distribute his resources and scale two very different AI chip designs,” Musk posted Late Friday night. “The Tesla AI5, AI6 and the following chips will be excellent for inference and at least reasonably good for training. All efforts are focused on that.”

He added that it makes sense for a supercomputer cluster to “place a lot of AI5/AI6 chips on a board, either for inference or training, easy to reduce the complexity and costs of network cabling with a few orders of size.”

“You could call that Dojo 3, I think,” he said.

Since 2019, Musk has talked about Dojo and repeated that Dojo would be a cornerstone of Tesla’s mission to fully self -driving and commercializing humanoid robots. Talk about Dojo stopped around August 2024 when Musk started to praise Cortex instead, a “gigantic new AI training supercluster that was built on Tesla HQ in Austin to solve real AI.”

It is not clear whether Cortex is still in the making. WAN has reached Tesla to learn more, and to inquire about the fate of the Dojo facility that Tesla had invested $ 500 million to build in Buffalo, New York.

The shift in the strategy comes at a time when Tesla decreasing EV sales and considerable brand damage experiences after the trip from Musk to politics. Musk has worked to convince investors that Tesla still has a future in autonomy, despite a slow and limited robotaxi launch in Austin last June, resulting in countless reported incidents of the vehicles that showed problematic driving behavior.

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