Elon Musk made a rare new comment about Tesla’s now not-so-secret ‘Dojo’ program to make an AI training supercomputer and gave a hint of its capacity.
Last year at Tesla’s Autonomy Day, the CEO first confirmed the existence of the ‘Dojo’ program:
We have an important program in Tesla that we do not have enough to talk about today with the name “Dojo”. That’s a superpower training computer. Dojo’s goal will be to capture large amounts of data and train it on a video level, and perform mass training of large amounts of video using the Dojo program – or Dojo computer. ”
Dojo means “place of the road” in Japanese and the term is often used for a place to practice meditation or martial arts.
In this case, the Dojo supercomputer will be a place for Tesla to run its Full AI itself.
While the project has been going on at Tesla for a while, it is not yet ready for primetime.
In fact, CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter this weekend to try to help people recruit for the program at Tesla:
“Tesla is an NN computer training company called Dojo to process real-time video data. It’s a beast! Check with our AI or computer / chip teams if this sounds interesting. ”
Furthermore, the CEO tipped on the computer power of the Dojo computer:
An exaFLOP is one quintillion (1018) operations with floating points per second, as 1,000 petaFLOPS.
This would make Tesla’s Tjo a truly newest supercomputer, as one is currently in a race to break the exaFLOP barrier at supercomputers with companies such as Intel and AMD, along with governments, in the running.
Here’s what Intel Aurora’s exaFLOP supercomputer looks like:
Although Musk sounds like it would not be a general supercomputer and instead optimize for training computer vision artificial intelligence on videos.
It’s different from what these other companies are trying to achieve, but it’s an ambitious goal nonetheless.
There is no clear timeline for Tesla today to get Dojo up and running, but Musk’s new recruitment effort shows that Tesla is actively looking for people for the program.
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