Tesla is dissolving the team that was developing its Dojo supercomputer, according to Bloomberg. The change, which reportedly includes the departure of Dojo head Peter Bannon, marks a notable shift away from using in-house technology to train the AI models powering Tesla’s self-driving features and its Optimus humanoid robot.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk first introduced Dojo in 2019, which he described as a “super powerful training computer” capable of processing heaps of vehicle video data that it uses to train AI chips. Bloomberg says Tesla now plans to partner with Nvidia and AMD for compute, while turning to Samsung for chip manufacturing.

Last month, Musk announced that Tesla struck a $16.5 billion deal with Samsung to develop the automaker’s next-generation AI6 chip. In response to Bloombe

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