Market2026-08-24

NVIDIA announced that SpaceXAI will deploy its new Vera processors, a chip designed for the coordination and code-running work that surrounds AI models, across the computing capacity behind Grok. SpaceXAI also plans to build its first Starmind satellite around an adapted Vera Rubin rack system for computing in orbit. NVIDIA notes the products described are offered on a when-and-if-available basis, with no committed timing.

What changed

SpaceXAI's AI infrastructure ran orchestration and data processing work on x86 CPUs.

  • 88 Olympus cores
  • up to 1.2TB/s memory bandwidth
  • up to 1.8x faster than x86

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