Tesla Inc. is disbanding its Dojo team and its leader will leave the company, according to people familiar with the matter, upending the automaker's effort to build an in-house supercomputer for developing driverless-vehicle technology.

Tesla's self-driving strategy based on AI technology is headed in a different direction. The electric car company's strategy was previously led by Tesla's Dojo supercomputer team, which disbanded around Aug.

Tesla is shutting down Dojo, the supercomputer project that was at one time key to the automaker's driverless-vehicle technology. Dojo's head is also leaving the company.