At a highly anticipated launch event, Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, recently spoke passionately in Beijing, revealing that the company's latest Dojo2 chip is about to enter mass production. This generation of chips offers an astonishing 10-fold performance improvement over the first generation, with computing power approaching NVIDIA's Blackwell B200. This means that Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) system in the field of autonomous driving will become self-sufficient, reducing its reliance on NVIDIA, and potentially even starting to provide computing power services to others.
The supercomputing capabilities of Dojo2 will significantly increase the speed of data training, helping to further optimize the performance of FSD. However, Musk is not satisfied with this, stating that next year, Tesla will launch an even more powerful Dojo3 chip, which will surpass Dojo2 in performance.
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According to reports from foreign media Not a Tesla App, Tesla has reached a partnership with global semiconductor giant TSMC, and it is expected to complete the mass production of Dojo2 by the end of the year. TSMC's latest packaging technology will assist in the production of this chip, making its computing power stronger and effectively solving some issues present in the previous generation of chips, such as silent data corruption (SDC) and excessive power consumption.
Musk emphasized that Dojo is a self-developed supercomputing platform designed for training the neural networks of FSD. Since the concept was first introduced in 2019, Tesla has continuously advanced its research and development in AI and visual recognition technologies. The unique feature of Dojo lies in its ability to process 16 billion video frames generated every day, supporting FSD to keep learning and evolving.
With the release of Dojo2, Tesla is expected to completely break free from its reliance on NVIDIA and play a more important role in the future of the automotive and AI industries. Musk even joked that the computing power of Dojo2 is strong enough to play "Crysis" at a speed of one billion frames per second. This game, once known for its high demand on graphics card performance, has now become an interesting analogy to demonstrate the performance of Dojo2.
Tesla's Dojo2 chip not only will change the company's approach to AI training, but could also trigger a revolution throughout the automotive and technology industries.
