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Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on X that Tesla will restart working on the Dojo3 initiative, the third generation of its in-house supercomputer. The Dojo team had been disbanded last year as the company prioritized the AI chips that run on board Tesla vehicles.
Musk said, “Now that the AI5 chip design is in good shape, Tesla will restart work on Dojo3.”
“If you’re interested in working on what will be the highest volume chips in the world, send a note to AI_Chips@Tesla.com with 3 bullet points on the toughest technical problems you’ve solved,” he further added.
The sole purpose of the Dojo project is to process video recordings and other data from Tesla vehicles and use that to train the "neural net" behind the company's Full Self-Driving software.
Currently Musk has been tied to the lawsuit filed between him and OpenAI. The trial date is scheduled on April 27.
Last year, however, Musk posted on X that "It doesn’t make sense for Tesla to divide its resources and scale two quite different AI chip designs. The Tesla AI5, AI6 and subsequent chips will be excellent for inference and at least pretty good for training. All effort is focused on that."
The AI chips that Musk is referring to are the FSD onboard Tesla vehicles. The AI6 chips will be made by Samsung’s Texas factory, after it struck a $26 billion agreement.
Musk’s 2026 has lots of inventions lined up and claimed a lot of things over the previous years, and many of those assertions either were misrepresentations or simply didn’t pan out.
Working against this chip project: Musk said that Dojo3 will be "space-based AI compute," as he and others believe that data centers in orbit are a superior alternative to the land-based behemoths currently being built.
Musk said, “Now that the AI5 chip design is in good shape, Tesla will restart work on Dojo3.”
“If you’re interested in working on what will be the highest volume chips in the world, send a note to AI_Chips@Tesla.com with 3 bullet points on the toughest technical problems you’ve solved,” he further added.
Now that the AI5 chip design is in good shape, Tesla will restart work on Dojo3.
If you’re interested in working on what will be the highest volume chips in the world, send a note to AI_Chips@Tesla.com with 3 bullet points on the toughest technical problems you’ve solved.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 18, 2026
The sole purpose of the Dojo project is to process video recordings and other data from Tesla vehicles and use that to train the "neural net" behind the company's Full Self-Driving software.
Currently Musk has been tied to the lawsuit filed between him and OpenAI. The trial date is scheduled on April 27.
Last year, however, Musk posted on X that "It doesn’t make sense for Tesla to divide its resources and scale two quite different AI chip designs. The Tesla AI5, AI6 and subsequent chips will be excellent for inference and at least pretty good for training. All effort is focused on that."
The AI chips that Musk is referring to are the FSD onboard Tesla vehicles. The AI6 chips will be made by Samsung’s Texas factory, after it struck a $26 billion agreement.
Musk’s 2026 has lots of inventions lined up and claimed a lot of things over the previous years, and many of those assertions either were misrepresentations or simply didn’t pan out.
Working against this chip project: Musk said that Dojo3 will be "space-based AI compute," as he and others believe that data centers in orbit are a superior alternative to the land-based behemoths currently being built.
