Elon Musk claims Tesla’s new AI supercluster will grow to over 500 MW, record AI chip

Elon Musk claims Tesla’s new AI supercluster will develop to over 500 MW, making it certainly one of, if not the largest on this planet. On the similar time, the CEO claims Tesla is attaining some record-breaking efficiency with its next-en AI chip.

Just a few months in the past, we reported that Tesla was having points constructing a brand new growth at Gigafactory Texas to deal with a brand new big supercomputer to coach Tesla’s AI.

On the time, we heard that Tesla was aiming for a 100 MW cluster to be prepared by August. Musk canceled different tasks at Tesla to focus building sources on the growth.

Commenting on drone movies of the growth, Musk mentioned that it’ll develop to over 500 MW over the following 18 months:

Sizing for ~130MW of energy & cooling this yr, however will improve to >500MW over subsequent 18 months or so. Aiming for about half Tesla AI {hardware}, half Nvidia/different. Play to win or don’t play in any respect.

We beforehand famous that it was unusual that Tesla was internally referring to the undertaking as a Dojo undertaking, which refers to Tesla’s personal supercomputing {hardware}, however sources had been additionally advised that the cluster would use Nvidia compute energy.

Now, Musk confirmed that Tesla plans to make use of each its personal {hardware} and Nvidia’s, in addition to different suppliers.

Nonetheless, issues are getting a bit unclear as Musk appears to additionally suggest that Tesla will use a few of its HW4 computer systems for the coaching clusters:

HW4 usually refers to Tesla’s in-car pc with an in-house designed chip, whereas Dojo is used for coaching, like this new cluster.

It’s unclear right here if Musk is speaking about utilizing inference computing for coaching or simply speaking about Tesla’s total deliberate computing energy.

Electrek’s Take

Elon had talked about at Tesla’s shareholders assembly that the corporate now had Nvidia-level AI chips, however the inventory didn’t even transfer from that announcement as Nvidia turned probably the most invaluable firm on this planet.

I believe Tesla’s AI effort continues to be not tremendous credible for the market. That occurs while you declare that you’re about to realize self-driving by the top of the yr yearly for the previous 5 years.

At this level, we have to see Tesla make important enhancements to FSD with every new replace. It seemed like this new cluster would assist obtain that however Elon additionally lately mentioned that Tesla was not compute-constrained for coaching proper now, so it’s onerous to actually perceive what’s holding up enhancements at this level.