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According to AIbase, Elon Musk announced during the long weekend that Tesla would restart the previously shelved Dojo3 project. This move marks a major shift in Tesla's chip strategy, with Dojo3's core mission no longer limited to training autonomous driving models on Earth, but officially entering "Space Artificial Intelligence Computing".
From "Stillbirth" to "Moon Landing": The Phoenix Rebirth of the Dojo Project
Five months ago, Tesla effectively shut down the Dojo project, and the core team disbanded after the departure of its leader Peter Bannon, with many key members moving to the startup DensityAI. At that time, Tesla showed a high dependence on NVIDIA, AMD computing power, and Samsung manufacturing.
However, Musk revealed on X that, given the smooth progress of AI5 chip design, the company decided to restart Dojo. He positioned AI7/Dojo3 as a "Moon Landing Project" and personally issued a "Call for Heroes," openly recruiting top engineers to rebuild the team, with the goal of developing the "highest production volume" chip in the world.
Computing Landscape: From Earth to Space
Tesla's chip landscape is showing a clear gradient:
AI5/AI6: manufactured by TSMC and Samsung, primarily powering FSD autonomous driving, Optimus humanoid robots, and data centers.
AI7 (Dojo3): focused on space computing.
This decision comes at a time of intensified competition: NVIDIA released an open-source autonomous driving model Alpamayo at the 2026 CES, directly targeting Tesla's FSD territory. In response to this competition, Musk clearly seeks a breakthrough at a higher level.
Vision: Solving the Earth's Power Crisis
Musk believes that the Earth's power grid can no longer bear the burden of data centers. His vision is to use funds raised through SpaceX's upcoming IPO to launch a constellation of computing satellites via Starship. These satellites will absorb solar energy around the clock and perform AI computations in orbit.
Although facing extreme technical challenges such as heat dissipation and cooling in a vacuum, compared to Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, who also shows interest in this area, Musk has a significant first-mover advantage in the "space data center" race, thanks to his own SpaceX transportation capabilities.