Khaberni - Billionaire Elon Musk announced Tesla's direction to resume work on "Dojo3," a third-generation artificial intelligence chip previously abandoned by the company.
Musk revealed that the goal of reviving the project this time will not be to train self-driving models on the ground, but instead, it will be dedicated to "computing artificial intelligence in space."
This step comes just 5 months after Tesla shut down the "Dojo" project, when the company then disbanded its team responsible for its supercomputer "Dojo" following the departure of project head Peter Bannon, and the join of about 20 engineers to the emerging company "Density AI".
A "Bloomberg" report stated at the time of the closure that Tesla had planned to increase its reliance on Nvidia and other partners such as AMD for computing and Samsung for chip manufacturing, but Musk's latest statements confirm that the strategy has changed again.
In a post on the "X" platform, the executive billionaire explained that the decision to revive Dojo was based on the state of its internal chip roadmap, noting that the design of Tesla's AI5 chip was "in good shape".
The AI5 artificial intelligence chip from Tesla, manufactured by TSMC, is designed to run features of autonomous driving and human-like Optimus robots.
Musk added: "The AI7/Dojo3 project will be dedicated to space computing for artificial intelligence," describing the revived project as a very ambitious endeavor.
To achieve this, Tesla has begun rebuilding its engineering team, using the same post by Musk to hire engineers directly, inviting talents interested in working on what he described as "the largest production chips in the world" to connect with the company and propose solutions for complex technical problems.
Musk, in agreement with other leaders in the field of artificial intelligence, believes the future of data centers may lie outside of Earth, to alleviate the enormous pressure on terrestrial energy networks.
In this context, the site "Axios" recently reported that Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, shares Musk's enthusiasm for placing data centers in orbit, although Musk has the advantage of full control over the launch vehicles via "SpaceX".
According to Axios, Musk plans to use the upcoming public offering of SpaceX to help fund his vision of using the Starship vehicle to launch a constellation of computing satellites that can operate in the continuous sunlight, and collect solar energy around the clock.
However, there are still many obstacles preventing the realization of artificial intelligence data centers in space, the most prominent being the challenge of cooling high-energy computing in the vacuum. These statements come in Musk's familiar pattern of proposing ideas that seem far-fetched, then trying to force them into reality.
