Tesla VP Pete Bannon developing chip tech, Dojo supercomputer leaving
Tesla’s Hardware Design Engineering Vice President Pete Bannon leaves the company after his first joining in 2016 AppleCNBC approved.
Bannon was leading the development of Tesla’s Dojo super computer and reported directly to Musk. Bloomberg He first reported about Bannon’s separation and ordered Musk’s closure to his team and added that engineers in the group should be re -appointed to other initiatives.
Tesla did not respond immediately to the request for comment.
Since the beginning of last year, Musk is trying to convince Tesla, whose shareholders are open to their public, not only an electric vehicle company, but that it is ready to become an artificial intelligence and robotic power center.
The center of the transformation was Dojo, a special -made super computer designed to process and train drawing artificial intelligence models on large amounts of videos and other data captured by Tesla tools.
Tesla’s focus on Dojo and another information set called Cortex was to develop the company’s advanced driver aid systems and to fulfill the promise of Musk’s current Teslas to convert to Robotaxis.
Tesla’s call for earnings in July, Musk, the company’s newest version of the company “next year to operate on a scale, 100,000 H-100 equivalent expects to be expected”, he said. Nvidia’s The latest technology chips.
Tesla recently made a $ 16.5 billion agreement with Samsung to produce more than its own A16 chips.
Tesla is running a test Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas and a relevant car service in San Francisco. In Austin, the company’s vehicles require a person ready to intervene if necessary in the front passenger seat. In San Francisco, automobile service is operated by human drivers, but invited users can make a journey in a “Tesla Robotaxi” application.
In the call for earnings, Musk encountered questions about how he saw Xai, Tesla and AI, and preserved their distances for AI ability to compete against each other.
Musk said that companies “do different things.” “Xai makes a terabayt -scale models and very much therapy -scale models.” He said. Tesla uses “100x smaller models”, the car manufacturer focused on the “real world AI”, focused on developing software that strives for automobiles and robots and Xai “Artificial Super Intelligence”.
Musk also said that some engineers would not participate in Tesla because one reason he has established a new company “they want to work on the net”.
Tesla experienced a migration of the best abilities this year because of a combination of business termination and resignation. Milan Kovac, the President of Tesla’s Optimus Robotic Engineering, was separated like David Lau, Vice President of Software Engineering, and Omead Afshar of the former Chief of General Staff of Musk.
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