Tesla unveils its new supercomputer (5th most powerful in the world) to train self-driving AI - Electrek

Tesla has unveiled its new supercomputer, which is already the fifth most powerful in the world, and it's going to be the predecessor of Tesla's upcoming new Dojo supercomputer. It is being used to train the neural nets powering Tesla's Autopilot and upcoming self-driving AI. Over the last few years, Tesla has had a clear focus on computing power both inside and outside its vehicles. Inside, it needs computers powerful enough to run its self-driving software, and outside, it needs supercomputers to train its self-driving software powered by neural nets that are fed an insane amount of data coming from the fleet. CEO Elon Musk has been teasing Tesla's Dojo project, which apparently consists of a supercomputer capable of an exaFLOP, one quintillion (1018) floating-point operations per second, or 1,000 petaFLOPS – making it one of the most powerful computers in the world.