[HN Gopher] Tesla Disbands Dojo Supercomputer Team in Blow to AI...
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       Tesla Disbands Dojo Supercomputer Team in Blow to AI Effort
        
       Author : mfiguiere
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2025-08-07 21:28 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.bloomberg.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bloomberg.com)
        
       | toomuchtodo wrote:
       | https://archive.today/i1EAP
        
       | TheAlchemist wrote:
       | Just for fun, here is a great read from a "leading Tesla analyst"
       | 2 years ago "Tesla jumps as analyst predicts $600 billion value
       | boost from Dojo":
       | 
       | https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...
       | 
       | Also worth noting that Elon said 2 weeks (!!!) ago on investors
       | call that they expect to have Dojo operating sometime next year
       | at scale equivalent to 100k h100... How people still don't see
       | that this guy is just lying all the time is beyond me.
       | 
       | The ship is sinking very fast folks.
        
         | ethagknight wrote:
         | Given that AI _is_ core to Tesla 's robotic and self driving
         | future, it seems like theres a lot more to this story than what
         | has been leaked thus far.
        
           | iszomer wrote:
           | Maybe an intentional troll, given the profile's
           | project.the.snowball moniker. /shrug
        
         | ivape wrote:
         | Two years ago Elon actually sounded a warning about Dojo. I
         | recall him mentioning this in an earnings call:
         | 
         |  _"And we're pursuing the dual path of Nvidia and Dojo. But I
         | would think of Dojo as a long shot. It's a long shot worth
         | taking because the payoff is potentially very high. But it's
         | not something that is a high probability. It's not like a sure
         | thing at all. It's a high-risk, high-payoff program. Dojo is
         | working, and it is doing training jobs, and we are scaling it
         | up, and we have plans for Dojo 1.5, Dojo 2, Dojo 3, and
         | whatnot. So I think it's got potential, but I can't emphasize
         | enough: high risk, high payoff."_
         | 
         | https://thetranscript.net/transcript/5550/tesla-q4-2023-earn...
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         | In other words, he admitted it's a long shot to replace Nvidia
         | with their own chip awhile ago. It's interesting because Google
         | hasn't given up on their TPUs, but Elon being a hardware guy
         | mostly, has.
        
       | techpineapple wrote:
       | I wonder if this is to shift the gpus to X.AI?
        
       | jeffbee wrote:
       | I want to write a browser extension that analyzes past HN
       | archives and decorates the usernames of posts and comments with a
       | "Fell For It Again" badge in the case of people who seemed to
       | believe that Dojo existed.
        
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