Tesla Nears Production AI5 Chip, Plans AI6 for Next-Gen AI Models

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced significant progress and high expectations for the company's AI5 and AI6 chips, describing AI5 as an 'epic' product and predicting AI6 could become the best AI chip available. Tesla is consolidating its chip design efforts into a single architecture, focusing all silicon talent on developing these advanced chips to support autonomous driving, AI model inference, and training workloads. The AI5 chip, to be manufactured initially by TSMC in Taiwan, aims to be the best inference chip for models under 250 billion parameters, with superior cost-efficiency and performance per watt. AI6, expected to be produced at Samsung’s Texas facility, is poised to serve as Tesla's unified AI platform, potentially replacing the Dojo training project, which was recently halted to streamline resources. Musk has invited engineers to join Tesla's silicon team, emphasizing the life-saving impact of their work on future products like the Cybercab and Optimus humanoid robot. Overall, Tesla's focused silicon strategy reflects a major push toward revolutionizing AI hardware for its autonomous and AI-driven technologies.