Elon Musk unveils Tesla’s new ‘Cortex’ supercomputer, but it’s not ready quite yet [Video]

Elon Musk has unveiled Tesla’s new ‘Cortex’ supercomputer, which could become one of the biggest in the world, but it’s not ready quite yet.

This project has been described as critical to Tesla by CEO Elon Musk, who has shifted the automaker’s focus to artificial intelligence in the last few years.

AI needs computing power.

Earlier this year, we reported that Tesla was having issues building a new expansion at Gigafactory Texas to house a new giant supercomputer to train Tesla’s AI.

At the time, we heard that Tesla was aiming for a 100 MW cluster to be ready by August to match the later delayed unveiling of its robotaxi. Musk canceled other projects at Tesla to focus construction resources on the expansion.

Later, Musk revealed that Tesla plans to eventually grow the cluster to over 500 MW and use half NVIDIA processors and half of its own AI hardware. Tesla plans to use this computing power to train its …