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Tesla Dojo: The rise and fall of Elon Musk’s AI supercomputer
Dojo was going to be Tesla’s custom-built supercomputer. Here's what Elon Musk had in mind, what happened, and what's coming next.
Image Credits: Costfoto/NurPhoto / Getty ImagesTesla’s hope was that by taking control of its own chip production, it might one day be able to quickly add large amounts of compute power to AI training programs at a low cost. During Tesla’s second-quarter 2024 earnings call, Musk said demand for Nvidia hardware was “so high that it’s often difficult to get the GPUs.” He said he was “quite concerned about actually being able to get steady GPUs when we want them, and I think this therefore requires that we put a lot more effort on Dojo in order to ensure that we’ve got the training capability that we need.” In Q2 2025, Tesla noted it “expanded AI training compute with an additional 16k H200 GPUs at Gigafactory Texas, bringing Cortex to a total of 67k H100 equivalents.” During that same earnings call, Musk said he expected to have a second Dojo cluster operating “at scale” in 2026.
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