Dojo is powered by Tesla’s D1 chip, designed in-house (and manufactured by TSMC) to handle massive volumes of driving data for training the company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) system. With Dojo shelved,

Once it became clear that all paths converged to AI6, I had to shut down Dojo and make some tough personnel choices, as Dojo 2 was now an evolutionary dead end,” Musk posted on X, the social media platform he owns,

After Dojo’s shutdown on August 7, employees have been redistributed across different teams within Tesla. This change follows about 20 people leaving Tesla to launch their own AI company, DensityAI.