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Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) is reassigning engineers who were working on the company’s in-house chip and supercomputer projects into other projects including autonomous driving and humanoid robots.
After the decision to end the company’s Dojo AI project, CEO Elon Musk has retained top talent and repositioned Dojo’s staff to other key projects, according to Bloomberg.
Some of Dojo’s software-focused staff now report to Ashok Elluswamy, head of Tesla’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) AI development for robotaxis and robots, while engineers working on silicon or semiconductors now report to Aaron Rodgers, who leads the company’s autonomous driving efforts and AI5 chip. Finally, Dojo’s firmware employees have been reassigned to security engineering under the direction of Silvio Brugada.
While most Dojo staff have been absorbed into other key departments, at least 20 senior and experienced engineers were hired by former Dojo head Ganesh Venkataramanan, who founded DensityAI after leaving Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA).
Musk made the decision to dissolve its in-house supercomputer efforts as it “doesn’t make sense for Tesla to divide its resources and scale two different AI chip designs,” Musk posted on X, adding that it is more logical to use AI5 and AI6 to train its full-self driving and autopilot systems.
The AI5 and AI6 chips are expected to be used in the company’s Cybercab, next-generation Roadster, and Optimus robot.