During Tesla’s second quarter 2023 investor call, Elon Musk said the company plans to license its full self-driving (FSD) driver-assistance technology to another major automaker. According to The Verge, the Tesla CEO did not reveal the name of the company, however, he said that licensing the FSD was always part of the plan. “We’re not trying to keep it to ourselves. We’re more than happy to license it to others,” Musk was quoted as saying. Musk has spoken about licensing FSD to competitors in the past.
Last month, he tweeted that “Tesla aspires to be as helpful as possible to other car companies. We made all of our patents available for free several years ago. Now, we’re enabling other companies to use our Supercharger network. Also happy to license Autopilot/.” FSD or other Tesla technology.”
Furthermore, the automaker also said in its second quarter earnings report that it plans to invest over $1 billion in Project Dojo by the end of 2024.
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Additionally, the company confirmed that it has begun production of Dojo supercomputers to train its fleet of autonomous vehicles, according to the report.
“We are developing each of these pillars in-house. This month, we are taking a step toward faster and cheaper neural net training with the start of production of our Dojo training computer,” the company was quoted as saying.
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Dojo training computers aimed at developing self-driving car software will be able to process massive amounts of data, including videos of Tesla cars.
Furthermore, the report mentions that the electric vehicle maker already has a large Nvidia GPU-based supercomputer that is one of the most powerful in the world, but the new Dojo custom-built computer is using Tesla-designed chips.
In 2019, Musk gave this “super powerful training computer” a name – Dojo.