Tesla has announced a new $500 million project to build a giant Dojo supercomputer cluster at Gigafactory New York in Bufallo.
Dojo is a new supercomputer designed from the ground up by Tesla specifically to train AI with videos.
The project suffered significant delays, but it seemed to be getting some momentum last year as the first Dojo cluster came online in the summer.
However, we also learned that Tesla let go of some of the program’s top leadership last month.
Furthermore, CEO Elon Musk described the project during Tesla’s earnings call this week as a “long shot” with a “not a high probability” of success.
I would think of Dojo as a long shot. It’s a long shot worth taking because the payoff is potentially very high. But it’s not something that is a high probability.
At the same time, Musk confirmed that Tesla is heavily…