After years of development, Tesla's Dojo 2 chip has reportedly entered mass production. If its rollout is smooth, this chip will be a significant technological innovation that raises the bar across the electric vehicle industry while also serving as a major win for a company that has needed this kind of positive press for months.
Although not as exciting as the unveiling of a new vehicle, the announcement of the Dojo 2 chip is arguably even more significant, as it means that Tesla would be able to upgrade the infrastructure behind its self-driving cars' artificial intelligence algorithms.
"Dojo 2 will train the vision-based neural nets that FSD [Full Self-Driving] relies on, allowing Tesla to process video from its massive global fleet of vehicles even faster. As Tesla continues to improve FSD, one of the biggest challenges has been the intake of video," wrote Karan Singh for Not a Tesla App, a website that reports on the EV giant.
"... Hundreds of thousands of miles of training data may pass by before an edge case is identified and trained on, but it all needs to be analyzed, labeled, and processed, which is key for Dojo 2. Each new useful piece of training data will help Tesla proceed down the march of nines, making FSD just that little bit better every time."
These chips are only now entering mass production, so it will likely be a few months before there are results with which to judge them. But if they are integrated successfully into Tesla's existing technologies (which is not a guarantee, given the company's prior history), it will likely put the company back on track with both its investors and the public after a catastrophic first half of 2025 that featured formal boycotts, massive sales slumps, and a newly significant social stigma.
Tesla or not, innovations and advancements like this could help encourage widespread adoption of EVs, which benefits pocketbooks and the planet. EVs produce no tailpipe pollution, leading to cleaner air. They also save consumers money on fuel and maintenance.
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