NVIDIA has officially announced the deployment of Vera CPUs and the Vera Rubin platform by SpaceXAI to power next-generation agentic AI and orbital computing workloads.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDIA today announced that SpaceXAI will deploy NVIDIA Vera CPUs to accelerate its next generation of agentic AI applications, bringing the first CPU built specifically for AI agents to one of the world’s most ambitious AI deployments. The partnership encompasses the deployment of the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, which is designed to optimize AI workloads by integrating accelerated computing across terrestrial data centers and orbital environments. SpaceXAI plans to expand its AI infrastructure behind Grok toward gigawatts of computing capacity, while simultaneously developing its first-generation Starmind AI satellite. This satellite will feature an optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system to facilitate advanced AI capabilities in orbit, allowing AI agents to execute tasks in real-time, improve performance and efficiency, and maintain high GPU utilization.
Agentic AI applications increasingly rely on CPUs to orchestrate tools, execute code, process data, and run simulations between model calls. SpaceXAI will utilize Vera to accelerate these workloads, enabling AI agents to act faster while keeping GPUs fed and fully utilized. NVIDIA Vera is the first CPU engineered for AI agents, featuring 88 NVIDIA-designed Olympus cores, NVIDIA Spatial Multithreading technology, and high-bandwidth LPDDR5X memory delivering up to 1.2TB/s of bandwidth. It enables up to 1.8x faster task completion compared with x86 CPUs across workloads including agentic AI, reinforcement learning, and data processing.
“Agentic AI requires a new kind of computing system — one built not only to generate answers, but to take action,” said Ian Buck, vice president of hyperscale and high-performance computing at NVIDIA. “Vera gives AI agents the CPU performance to act in real time — executing code, processing data and coordinating complex tasks. SpaceXAI is taking this architecture from massive AI factories to the next frontier of computing in orbit.”
“Vera gives us the CPU performance and memory bandwidth to run enormous amounts of orchestration, code and data processing while keeping GPUs doing what they do best,” said Mike Nicolls, president of SpaceXAI. “That means higher-performance AI agents and more useful work from every watt of compute.”
At massive scale, AI infrastructure must support demanding training, reasoning, and inference workloads while maximizing performance, power efficiency, and utilization. The NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform is codesigned across compute, networking, and software to optimize the AI factory as a whole. It integrates NVIDIA accelerated computing, NVLink™ interconnect technology, Spectrum-X™ Ethernet networking, BlueField® data processing, and NVIDIA software into an architecture designed to deliver high performance and energy efficiency at scale while driving down cost per token. As SpaceXAI expands toward gigawatts of computing capacity, Vera Rubin provides a common architecture to efficiently scale its next generation of AI factories.
SpaceXAI’s collaboration with NVIDIA extends beyond terrestrial data centers into orbital computing, where power, thermal management, bandwidth, reliability, and physical integration impose dramatically different constraints from conventional data centers. The planned first-generation Starmind AI satellite will be based on the optimized NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system, extending the same accelerated computing architecture powering next-generation AI factories on Earth into space. NVIDIA and SpaceXAI are adapting this foundation to meet orbital requirements while preserving a common NVIDIA architecture and software ecosystem. This establishes a unified computing foundation across diverse environments: Vera CPUs accelerating increasingly sophisticated AI agents, Vera Rubin powering the infrastructure behind Grok and gigawatt-scale AI factories on Earth, and NVIDIA accelerated computing extending into orbital AI infrastructure.
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