Tesla says it has began manufacturing of its Dojo supercomputer to coach its fleet of autonomous autos.
In its second quarter earnings report for 2023, the corporate outlined “4 principal expertise pillars” wanted to “resolve car autonomy at scale: extraordinarily giant real-world dataset, neural web coaching, car {hardware} and car software program.”
“We’re creating every of those pillars in-house,” the corporate mentioned in its report. “This month, we’re taking a step in the direction of quicker and cheaper neural web coaching with the beginning of manufacturing of our Dojo coaching laptop.”
The automaker already has a big Nvidia GPU-based supercomputer that is among the strongest on the planet, however the brand new Dojo custom-built laptop is using chips designed by Tesla. In 2019, Tesla CEO Elon Musk gave this “tremendous highly effective coaching laptop” a reputation: Dojo.
Beforehand, Musk has claimed that Dojo shall be able to an exaflop, or 1 quintillion (1018) floating-point operations per second. That’s an unimaginable quantity of energy. “To match what a one exaFLOP laptop system can do in only one second, you’d must carry out one calculation each second for 31,688,765,000 years,” Network World wrote.
At Tesla’s AI Day in 2021, Dojo was nonetheless a piece in progress. Executives revealed its first chip and coaching tiles, which might ultimately develop right into a full Dojo cluster or “ExaPod.” Tesla mentioned it is going to mix 2 x 3 tiles in a tray and two trays in a pc cupboard for over 100 petaflops per cupboard. In a 10-cabinet system, Tesla’s Dojo ExaPod will break the barrier of the exaflop of compute.
A 12 months later, at AI Day 2022, Tesla unveiled some progress on Dojo, together with having a full system tray. On the time, the automaker spoke about having a full cluster by early 2023 — although now it seems to be like it is going to seemingly be early 2024.