Tesla is Developing an AI Training System Called DOJO
Billed as ‘the fastest AI training computer.’
During its AI Day event on Thursday, Tesla released plans for its artificial intelligence training system it has dubbed DOJO.
The in-house designed device would tackle the “insatiable demand for speed as well as capacity for neural-network training,” Tesla’s Ganesh Venkataramanan said. The project aims to “achieve best AI training performance” and “enable larger and more complex neural net models,” while still being power and cost-efficient.
DOJO would be powered by a distributed computing architecture, which would feature a large compute plane and facilitate high bandwidth and low latencies. The device would include several layers, including a chip, the system, a compute cluster and additional software.
“It will be the fastest AI training computer,” said Venkataramanan. “We have a whole next-generation plan already.”
CEO Elon Musk said Dojo would be operational by next year.
Also at the AI Day event, Tesla unveiled plans for a human-sized robot aptly called Tesla Bot. The life-sized, 125 lbs humanoid bot would be able to “eliminate dangerous, repetitive and boring tasks” and deadlift up to 150 lbs — read more about it here.
