SpaceXAI Partners with NVIDIA to Deploy Vera CPU for AI Agents

NVIDIA Corp. announced Monday that SpaceXAI will deploy its Vera CPU to power next-generation agentic AI applications.

SpaceXAI is the artificial intelligence division of SpaceX.

The partnership will also expand SpaceXAI's Grok infrastructure. Additionally, the company plans to send NVIDIA's accelerated computing technology into space via its first Starmind AI satellite.

Vera Targets Agentic AI Workloads

Agentic AI systems use CPUs to coordinate tools, run code, process data, and manage simulations between model requests. SpaceXAI plans to use NVIDIA's Vera CPU for these tasks while keeping graphics processing units fully utilized.

Vera features 88 NVIDIA-designed Olympus cores and high-bandwidth LPDDR5X memory. The chip delivers up to 1.2TB/second of memory bandwidth. NVIDIA says Vera is up to 1.8x faster than x86 CPUs on certain AI, reinforcement learning, and data processing tasks.

SpaceXAI President Mike Nicolls said the technology should boost AI agent performance while allowing the company to extract more work per watt of computing power.

Grok Infrastructure Expansion

SpaceXAI will also use the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform to expand Grok's compute infrastructure. The system integrates computing, networking, data processing, and software technologies.

The platform will support SpaceXAI's expansion to gigawatt-scale compute capacity. It will handle AI training, inference, and reasoning workloads in large data centers.

NVIDIA Technology Goes to Space

SpaceXAI's first-generation Starmind AI satellite will use an optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system. NVIDIA and SpaceXAI will adapt the architecture to meet orbital computing requirements for power, cooling, bandwidth, and reliability.

NVDA stock performance: As of Monday's press time, NVIDIA shares were down 1.88% at $210.68.