Elon Musk doubles down on Tesla's Dojo supercomputer, aiming to compete with Nvidia

Source: Business Insider

The Tesla CEO and billionaire addressed Dojo during the company's disappointing second-quarter earnings call, doubling down on Tesla's commitment to developing the state-of-the-art system.

Elon Musk acknowledged he is "quite concerned" about Tesla's inability to access the top-tier Nvidia graphics processing units, or GPUs, because of skyrocketing demand for microprocessors within the tech sector. The chips quickly and efficiently perform difficult calculations to render images and graphics and are key to training and deploying AI.

"I'm incredibly impressed by Nvidia's execution and the capability of their hardware," said Elon Musk. "What we are seeing is that the demand for Nvidia hardware is so high that it's often difficult to get the GPUs."

Despite Musk's complaints that Nvidia chips are difficult to come by, the billionaire admitted in June to redirecting $500 million in the AI processors meant for Tesla to X earlier this year, saying the EV maker didn't have the space to turn them on.

"We do see a path to being competitive with Nvidia with Dojo," Musk said. "We kind of have no choice."

Musk has been positioning Tesla as an AI company and has been hyping its Robotaxi; the Robotaxi event has been delayed until October of this year.

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