Tesla's Dojo Supercomputer Project Faces Setback as Key Executive Departs

Ganesh Venkataramanan, the project lead for Tesla's Dojo supercomputer, has left the company, dealing a blow to the automaker's self-driving technology efforts. Venkataramanan, who had been leading the Dojo project for the past five years, departed last month, and Peter Bannon, a former Apple executive and Tesla director, is now leading the project. Dojo is a Tesla-designed supercomputer aimed at training the machine learning models behind the company's self-driving systems. The departure of Venkataramanan and another member of the team poses challenges to the expensive and technologically advanced project, which Tesla plans to invest over $1 billion in by the end of 2024.