Elon Musk posts a real photo of the AI-5 chip, and the previously shelved training chip Dojo is also back.

ME News Report, April 15 (UTC+8), according to Beating Monitoring, Elon Musk announced on X today that Tesla’s AI5 chip has completed tapeout (i.e., chip design finalized and delivered to the wafer factory for manufacturing), and also revealed that AI6 and Dojo3 are in development. He posted a photo of the actual AI5 chip, with Tesla’s logo printed on the chip package. AI5 is Tesla’s next-generation chip designed for autonomous driving and AI inference; compared to the current onboard HW4 chip, it offers up to 40 times higher computing power in specific scenarios and a ninefold increase in memory. Larger memory means the vehicle can run bigger visual models and process longer video data to understand road conditions, which is one of the key bottlenecks for achieving unsupervised full autonomous driving (FSD). According to Musk, AI5 will be produced simultaneously by TSMC and Samsung, with both foundries manufacturing the same design but with different physical implementations. This dual-line parallel approach both disperses supply chain risks and secures production capacity for mass production. AI5 is expected to have a small batch of samples by the end of 2026 and mass production in 2027; the first units will be used for Cybercab autonomous taxis, Optimus humanoid robots, and Tesla data centers. The emergence of Dojo3 is noteworthy. Tesla previously shelved its self-developed training chip project, Dojo, and instead heavily purchased NVIDIA GPUs for AI training. Musk’s recent mention of Dojo3 indicates that Tesla has not abandoned its own training chip route but is advancing both inference (AI5/AI6) and training (Dojo3) lines simultaneously, attempting to gradually reduce dependence on NVIDIA. (Source: BlockBeats)