The news marked a major setback to the automaker’s efforts to develop its own in-house developed supercomputer to train AI models for self-driving cars. And it signaled yet another blow to Tesla’s ongoing efforts to retain its top talent. While the rest of the industry was relying on external suppliers for compute and chips, Tesla would design its hardware in-house. In 2018, Jim Keller, the famed AI chip developer who was first hired to lead Tesla’s chip making efforts, left. If Tesla’s top executives start to follow them, than Musk may be left running this race for AI dominance all by himself.