SpaceXAI adopts NVIDIA Vera CPU and plans Vera Rubin NVL72 on Starmind satellite

NVIDIA said SpaceXAI will use Vera CPUs to speed up the CPU-bound work agents do between model calls, and will expand its Grok infrastructure on Vera Rubin. SpaceXAI also plans to put an optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system on its first Starmind satellite. The release gave no contract value.

• Vera CPU: 88 NVIDIA-designed Olympus cores; up to 1.2 TB/s LPDDR5X bandwidth
• Claimed up to 1.8x faster task completion vs x86 CPUs (NVIDIA claim)
• Vera Rubin NVL72 planned for the Starmind satellite
• No contract value disclosed