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Core Insights - Tesla is shifting its focus towards AI chips, moving from hardware support to a core element that determines product capability limits [1][12] - Elon Musk revealed Tesla's latest AI chip roadmap, with AI5 design nearing completion and AI6 in early stages, aiming to compress chip design cycles to 9 months per generation [1][12] Group 1: AI Chip Development - The goals for Tesla's vehicle chips from HW3/AI3 and HW4/AI4 to the upcoming AI5 focus on providing higher computing power and larger memory for Full Self-Driving (FSD) and allowing redundancy for future complex end-to-end models [3][13] - The AI4 era features a 7nm process with approximately 216 TOPS supporting current FSD V12, which is insufficient for long-term goals of full autonomy and embodied intelligence [3][13] - AI5 is expected to utilize both Samsung's 2nm and TSMC's 3nm processes, with Musk claiming a "50 times performance improvement," combining a 10 times increase in raw computing power and a 9 times increase in memory capacity compared to AI4 [3][13] Group 2: Application and Integration - AI5 targets two core businesses: FSD and the Optimus humanoid robot, with a unified algorithm and hardware platform for both vehicles and robots, creating a unique advantage in embodied intelligence [4][14] - The architecture allows Tesla to view smart cars as "mobile robots" and robots as "walking cars," facilitating collaborative evolution at the foundational level [4][14] - Following AI5, AI6 will expand to support both edge inference and cloud training, with HW series chips deployed in vehicles and Dojo series chips for data center training, indicating a dual technical pathway [4][14] Group 3: Dojo Project and Space Computing - The initial goal of the Dojo project was to provide customized, efficient computing infrastructure for Tesla's autonomous driving training, with the first D1 chip based on a 7nm process [5][15] - AI6 and AI7 are envisioned as versatile AI computing chips that can support both edge inference and data center training, even adapting to space environments [5][15] - Space computing is a significant application for AI7, leveraging collaboration with SpaceX to deploy high-performance computing systems in orbit, taking advantage of potential benefits in latency, coverage, and infrastructure costs [6][16] Group 4: Engineering Solutions and Future Goals - Space computing presents challenges such as radiation, heat dissipation, and energy consumption, requiring higher reliability and power control for chips [7][17] - Musk mentioned AI8 and AI9, with an ambitious goal of shortening chip design cycles to 9 months per generation, aiming to align hardware upgrades with the rapid evolution of AI algorithms [7][17] - Tesla proposes an engineering solution to extend the usable life of older AI3 chips by processing 16-bit data with 8-bit low precision chips, balancing user scale and long-term product lifecycle [7][17] Summary - Tesla's AI chip roadmap indicates aggressive growth in computing power, with a 50 times performance increase from AI4 to AI5, significantly outpacing industry averages [11][21] - The application scope is expanding from vehicle inference to robots, data centers, and space computing, with a significantly compressed iteration cycle to match the rapid evolution of AI models [11][21]