As sales continue to plummet worldwide, Tesla is giving up on building an in-house supercomputer for computer vision processing as part of its advanced driver assistance system.

As Bloomberg reports, the head of the project, dubbed Dojo and which CEO Elon Musk used to hype up immensely, is leaving the company. The team has already lost around 20 workers to a separate data center firm that's been poaching former Tesla executives.

The rest of the team will reportedly be reassigned to other data center projects.

Considering that Musk has refocused the company's efforts on a robotaxi service that relies on computer vision, it's not exactly confidence-inducing. Musk once called Dojo a "beast," but admitted last year that he had come to think of Dojo "as a long shot" because "it's not somethi

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