Teslaconomics
@Teslaconomics · Jan 19, 2026
Elon just confirmed Dojo3 is back!
When people heard Tesla paused Dojo last year, a lot of people assumed it was a failure and the team gave up. But that’s not what happened at all.
Elon made a hard call in mid 2025 that Tesla temporarily shut down the dedicated Dojo team to
Elon Musk
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Solving AI5 was existential to Tesla, which is why I had to focus both the teams on that chip and I’ve personally spent every Saturday for several months working on it.
This will be a very capable chip. Roughly Hopper class as single SoC and Blackwell as dual, but it costs peanuts and uses much less power.
Now that AI5 is looking good, we have some headroom to work on Dojo3 too.
04:39 AM · January 19, 2026 · 833K views
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