Elon Musk pitches Tesla’s in-house AI chip ambitions, seeks talent for next-generation designs

Elon Musk has said Tesla has been building advanced AI chips for several years, revealing details about the electric carmaker’s in-house silicon roadmap as it looks to scale its autonomous driving and humanoid robotics efforts. In a post on X, Musk said Tesla’s internal chip and board engineering team has already designed and deployed “several million AI chips” across its vehicles and data centres, hardware that he claimed underpins the company’s efforts around real-world AI training.

According to Musk, the current generation of chips used…