March 18 (Reuters) – Billionaire Elon Musk said late on Wednesday that his companies SpaceX AI and Tesla expect to continue ordering Nvidia chips at scale. * Tesla is designing its fifth-generation AI chip to powerits autonomous ambitions. The chips power Tesla’s autonomousdriving systems, including the Full Self-Driving software. * In a separate post on […]
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Musk says SpaceX AI, Tesla will keep ordering Nvidia chips at scale
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March 18 (Reuters) – Billionaire Elon Musk said late on Wednesday that his companies SpaceX AI and Tesla expect to continue ordering Nvidia chips at scale.
* Tesla is designing its fifth-generation AI chip to powerits autonomous ambitions. The chips power Tesla’s autonomousdriving systems, including the Full Self-Driving software. * In a separate post on X, Musk said that the AI5 chip canbe used for training in data centers but is primarily optimizedfor AI edge compute in humanoid robot Optimus and Robotaxi. * The Tesla CEO also said that the company expects a widerelease of an update to its Full Self-Driving (Supervised)software in a few weeks. * Musk said last Saturday that Tesla’s Terafab project tomake artificial intelligence chips will launch in seven days. * Last month, SpaceX acquired xAI in an all-stock deal ahead of a potentialblockbuster initial public offering for SpaceX later this year.This is Musk’s first post referring to the combined entity asSpaceX AI.
(Reporting by Gursimran Kaur in Bengaluru; Editing by Sumana Nandy and Sonia Cheema)