Elon Musk that Tesla will be restarting work on Dojo3, the third generation of its . The Dojo team had been as the company prioritized the that run on board Tesla vehicles. Musk said the company is returning to the project “now that the AI5 chip design is in good shape.”
The purpose of the Dojo project is to process video recordings and other data from Tesla vehicles and use that the “neural net” behind the company’s Full Self-Driving software. Last year, however, Musk that “It doesn’t make sense for Tesla to divide its resources and scale two quite different AI chip designs. The Tesla AI5, AI6 and subsequent chips will be excellent for inference and at least pretty good for training. All effort is focused on that.”
The AI chips Musk is referring to are ones onboard Tesla vehicles and are not optimized for training. The AI6 chips will be in the company’s Texas factory, after it struck a $16 billion agreement with Tesla.
Musk has also claimed a lot of things over the years, and many of those assertions either were misrepresentations or simply didn’t pan out. Working against this chip project: Musk that Dojo3 will be “space-based AI compute,” as he that are a superior alternative to the currently being built. The idea is that space provides easier access to the sun’s energy, and the cold temperatures there might greatly reduce the power needed, among other benefits. While it’s an if entirely speculative idea, experts .
This story originally appeared on Engadget
