Elon Musk isn't one to shy away from grand promises, and the latest one involves AI chips. The entrepreneur has reminded people (and investors) via an X post that Tesla has had an "advanced AI chip and board engineering team" for several years now. He goes on to state that the chips coming out of this project will make Tesla "the leader in real-world AI," as bold a claim as any, and that the firm plans to make more AI chips than all other chipmakers, combined.
Musk claims this engineering team has already deployed millions of "AI chips" in cars and data centers. The keyword here is "cars," however. The actual count of deployed hardware would be hard to pin down, as the statement implies that 2016-vintage Nvidia Drive PX 2 SoCs inside early Teslas count as much as a latest-gen Blackwell data center accelerator.
