SpaceX to Deploy Nvidia CPU Chips for AI Development
By Katherine Hamilton
SpaceX's artificial-intelligence division will deploy Nvidia Vera CPU chips to develop its agentic applications.
The partnership brings the first CPU built for AI agents to xAI's deployments, which includes the Grok chatbot among other projects, Nvidia said Monday.
SpaceXAI will use the chips to manage application workloads and speed up agents' reaction times. It plans to expand its AI infrastructure behind Grok on Nvidia Vera Rubin, while extending an optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 into space with its Starmind satellite.
Vera Rubin provides a common architecture for SpaceXAI to scale its AI factories, which SpaceXAI plans to take beyond data centers on Earth and into orbital computing.
The company's Starmind AI satellite will be based on Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system, extending the same computing architecture that powers AI factories on Earth.
SpaceX has been ramping its computing capacity as its AI development ambitions increase. Earlier this month, it announced in partnership with Tesla that it planned to build a semiconductor fabrication plant in Texas, with the goal of producing 1 terawatt of compute per year.
Write to Katherine Hamilton at katherine.hamilton@wsj.com
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August 24, 2026 11:39 ET (15:39 GMT)
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