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Tesla is building a custom $1 billion A.I. supercomputer because it cannot get enough Nvidia chips

Tesla Inc. Nvidia Elon Musk Jensen Huang

Tesla CEO Elon Musk cannot get enough of Nvidia's advanced AI training chips. (Credit: Nathan Laine—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Think chip designer Nvidia’s trillion-dollar-plus valuation is mainly hot air thanks to hype around generative artificial intelligence?

Elon Musk would not agree. The Tesla CEO is willing to invest well over $1 billion to build an A.I. supercomputer he dubbed Dojo just because he can’t get his hands on enough of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s advanced A100 tensor core GPU clusters.

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