SpaceXAI will deploy standalone Nvidia Vera CPUs for Grok's agentic workloads — will use optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 in space with Starmind satellite
Nvidia claims the chip completes agentic, reinforcement learning, and data processing tasks up to 1.8 times faster than x86 processors.
Elon Musk's SpaceXAI is set to deploy standalone Nvidia Vera CPUs for the AI agents of Grok, according to a recent announcement. The company will use an optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 in a Starmind satellite in the fourth quarter of 2027. This is SpaceXAI's second hyperscaler commitment after Meta, which is also using Vera outside of full Vera Rubin racks.
Nvidia claims that the Vera chip is up to 1.8 times faster than x86 processors in tasks related to agentic, reinforcement learning, and data processing. Mike Nicolls, president of SpaceXAI, explained that Vera provides the necessary CPU performance and memory bandwidth to run a large amount of orchestration, code, and data processing while keeping the GPUs focused on their main function.
The SpaceXAI-designed space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system will be launched to orbit in the fourth quarter of 2027, with significant scale-up planned for 2028.
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