Elon Musk claims Tesla’s new AI supercluster will develop to over 500 MW, making it one among, 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.
A number of months in the past, we reported that Tesla was having points constructing a brand new enlargement at Gigafactory Texas to accommodate a brand new large 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 development assets on the enlargement.
Commenting on drone movies of the enlargement, Musk mentioned that it’s going to develop to over 500 MW over the following 18 months:
Sizing for ~130MW of energy & cooling this 12 months, 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 challenge as a Dojo challenge, which refers to Tesla’s personal supercomputing {hardware}, however sources have been additionally instructed 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.
Nevertheless, issues are getting a little bit unclear as Musk appears to additionally indicate that Tesla will use a few of its HW4 computer systems for the coaching clusters:
HW4 usually refers to Tesla’s in-car laptop 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 grew to become essentially the most precious firm on this planet.
I believe Tesla’s AI effort continues to be not tremendous credible for the market. That occurs if you declare that you’re about to attain self-driving by the top of the 12 months yearly for the previous 5 years.
At this level, we have to see Tesla make important enhancements to FSD with every new replace. It appeared 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 exhausting to actually perceive what’s holding up enhancements at this level.