Tesla is motivated to develop bigger, faster computers that are precisely suited to their needs.

The Google TPU architecture has not evolved as much over the last 5 years. The Google TPU chip is designed for the problems that Google runs. They are not optimized for training AI.

Tesla has rethought the problem of AI training and designed the Dojo AI supercomputer to optimally solve their problems.

If Tesla commercializes the AI supercomputer that will help to get to lower costs and greater power with more economies of scale.

One of the reasons that TSMC overtook Intel was that TSMC was making most of the ARM chips for cellphones. TSMC having more volume let them learn faster and drive down costs and accelerate technology.

99% of what neural network nodes do are 8 by 8 matrix multiply and 1% that is more like a general computer. Tesla created a superscalar GPU to optimize for this compute load.