Oct 15, 2026

On October 15, Elon Musk claimed the Star Mind computer SpaceX and Nvidia are co-engineering will reach volume production next year, calling it “far better than almost anyone expects” (Musk post). ...
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The value of higher power depends on the hardware and the work it runs. We test several ways to reach the target, including designs that change the assumed limits.

Oct 6, 2026

On October 6 SpaceX VP Michael Nicolls said Starmind needs clusters of about 10 satellites in tight formation with about 10 Tbps between them, toward up to 1 million sats. That is SpaceX’s first fo...
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The value of higher power depends on the hardware and the work it runs. We test several ways to reach the target, including designs that change the assumed limits.

Oct 2, 2026

Elon Musk said on October 1 that each SpaceX Star Mind spacecraft will have over 250 kW of solar power. In a reply to a quote post, he added he is cautiously optimistic SpaceX's version of the VR72...

Aug 24, 2026

NVIDIA announced on August 24, 2026 that SpaceXAI will deploy NVIDIA Vera CPUs to accelerate agentic AI workloads and expand Grok infrastructure on the Vera Rubin platform as it scales toward gigaw...

Aug 4, 2026

SpaceX is partnering with Nvidia to design the Starmind AI1 satellite compute payload, which will include Nvidia Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs for what the company calls datacenter class space compute.