On Thursday, Bloomberg reported that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has ordered its Dojo supercomputer project to be disbanded after the project’s leader and most of its employees left to join another AI project. The news marked a major setback to the automaker’s efforts to develop its own in-house developed supercomputer to train AI models for self-driving cars. And it signaled yet another blow to Tesla’s ongoing efforts to retain its top talent.
For years, Tesla touted its custom built supercomputer meant to train machine-learning models for Tesla’s Autopilot, Full Self-Driving, and Optimus robots as the thing that will give it the leg up over other …