“Once it became clear that all paths converged to AI6, I had to shut down Dojo and make some tough personnel choices, as Dojo 2 was now an evolutionary dead end,” Musk posted on X, the social media platform he owns, on Sunday. “Dojo 3 arguably lives on in the form of a large number of AI6 [systems-on-a-chip] on a single board.”

Dojo is powered by Tesla’s D1 chip, designed in-house (and manufactured by TSMC) to handle massive volumes of driving data for training the company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) system. With Dojo shelved,

Tesla's board approved a compensation package for Elon Musk worth about $29 billion in order to keep the chief executive focused on the company.