
phil beisel
@pbeisel · 10. Aug. 2025
The moment Elon mentioned AI6 (Q2 earnings call, July 23, 2025) and later followed up with the announcement of the Samsung deal (July 27, 2025), the fate of the Dojo's D1 was sealed.
Whether team members left voluntarily or were pushed is irrelevant. It is clear a decision was
phil beisel@pbeisel· 8. Aug. 2025AI6 Is Now Dojo
When Elon disclosed plans for the AI6 chip—remarking it would be the convergence architecture—it was clear major changes were coming to Dojo.
Dojo is Tesla’s AI training supercomputer, built around a custom chip known as the D1.
The D1 and AI5/AI6 share many

Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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.
Dojo 3 arguably lives on in the form of a large number of AI6 SoCs on a single board.
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