Elon Musk restarts Dojo3 ‘space’ supercomputer project as AI5 chip design gets in ‘good shape’ — will be first Tesla-built supercomputer to feature all-in-house hardware, with no help from Nvidia

Elon Musk has confirmed on X that Tesla has restarted work on the Dojo3 supercomputer following the new success of its AI5 chip design. The billionaire stated in a recent X post that the AI5 chip design is now in “good shape”, enabling Tesla to shuffle resources back to the Dojo 3 project. Musk also added that he is hiring more people to help build the chips that will inevitably be used in Tesla’s next-gen supercomputer.

This news follows Tesla’s decision that it was cancelling Dojo’s wafer-level processor initiative in late 2025. Dojo 3 has gone through several iterations since Elon Musk first chimed in on the project, but according to Musk’s latest thoughts on it, Dojo 3 will be the first Tesla-built supercomputer to take advantage of purely in-house hardware only. Previous iterations, such as Dojo2, took advantage of a mixture of in-house chips and Nvidia AI GPUs.