Billionaire Elon Musk has shared a rare glimpse of the inner workings of Tesla’s latest innovation – Cortex, a cutting-edge AI training supercluster being built at Tesla HQ in Austin.
In a post on X, the Tesla CEO gave the world a look at the Cortex Supercluster, a massive array of supercomputers. “Today’s video inside Cortex, the massive new AI training supercluster being built at Tesla HQ in Austin to solve real-world AI problems,” Mr Musk wrote on X.
The facility is expected to play a key role in developing and refining Tesla’s AI models, which will be used to improve or enhance the company’s electric vehicles, energy products and other technologies.
Today’s video takes a look inside Cortex, the massive new AI training supercluster being built at Tesla HQ in Austin to solve real-world AI problems pic.twitter.com/DwJVUWUrb5
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 26, 2024
In early July, Elon Musk announced that Tesla would bring a 50,000 GPU cluster online, doubling the number on its Dojo custom AI chip supercomputer. The cluster will expand Tesla’s capabilities to pursue full-scale FSD and other AI initiatives.
Mr Musk also addressed Nvidia’s internal emails revealing plans to send thousands of GPUs reserved for Tesla to its private ventures Xe and XAI. He said the GPUs were needed to fill Tesla’s data centres and would be used to support Tesla’s AI initiatives.
According to a report by DatacenterDynamics, Tesla CFO Vaibhav Taneja revealed that the company still expects capital expenditure to exceed $10 billion in the second quarter despite the drop in capital expenditure. Mr Musk also launched a poll asking users whether Tesla should invest $5 billion in his AI startup xAI.
The announcement comes after Tesla reported second quarter earnings that showed a drop in revenue and profits. However, Elon Musk remains committed to advancing Tesla’s AI capabilities, saying the company has “no choice” but to keep Dojo working due to the high demand for Nvidia GPUs. Mr Musk’s goal is to make Dojo a success, with 8,000 H100-equivalent trainings online by the end of the year.
Mr Musk’s xAI aims to release Grok 2 in August and is working on Grok 3, which will rival OpenAI’s GPT-5.
