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Tesla unveiled designs for its AI training supercomputer D1 Chip in August, and now the company has released a detailed report of the program, dubbed “Project Dojo” internally.
On Tuesday, Tesla officially released a whitepaper for Project Dojo, to which @Elon Musk responded saying, “This is more important than it may seem at first.” @Musk also went on to explain that the chip’s implementation could lead to “reducing traffic fatalities by 90%,” and even “perhaps ultimately by over 99%.”
This is more important than it may seem at first
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 26, 2021
Tesla released the D1 chip at an AI Day event in August, at which Project Dojo Senior Director of Autopilot Hardware Ganesh Venkataramana debuted the chip, beautifully laid out in a cabinet of stacked chip tiles.
Reducing traffic fatalities by 90% seems likely, perhaps ultimately by over 99%
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 26, 2021
Venkataramana explained that the D1 chip features a processing power of 362 teraflops based upon 7-nanometer chip manufacturing, which is then packed into what Tesla calls “training tiles,” connecting a total of 25 D1 chips together in an artificial intelligence supercomputer.
All-in-all, training tiles are combined into stacks of 120 in a server cabinet, allowing for up to 1.1 exaflops of computer power, expected to feature a smaller footprint from better performance, as well as AI learning capacities never before seen in any industry – let alone in something as delicate as autonomous driving.
