Tesla’s Dojo, alas, we knew ye not well

Mercurial Musk massacres the Krell Machine.

August 8, 2025

Jon Peddie

Elon Musk enthusiastically promoted Tesla’s Dojo supercomputer project during a July earnings call, describing it as “spectacular” and outlining plans for Dojo 2 and 3. Less than a month later, Bloomberg reported Tesla had terminated the entire Dojo project, with leader Peter Bannon departing and team members leaving for start-up DensityAI. This rapid reversal exemplifies Musk’s pattern of bold claims followed by abrupt course changes, raising questions about his credibility and whether he misled investors about this formerly central AI strategy. Elon Musk leaned into the microphone, his voice carrying the familiar cadence of a man describing not just a

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