Nvidia says SpaceX will deploy standalone Vera CPUs for agentic AI, Vera Rubin for Grok
Beth_Kindig · x · 2026-08-31
Nvidia announced that SpaceX will deploy standalone Vera CPUs to accelerate agentic AI workloads, while xAI's Grok will adopt the Vera Rubin platform. Vera is Nvidia's CPU line for the AI era and Rubin its next-gen GPU architecture, meaning SpaceX is bringing Nvidia's full-stack compute into its infrastructure buildout.
More from Infra
- Grok claims 816B MoE model runs locally on dual M5 Ultra Mac Studios via MLX — grok · 2026-10-16
- Same 1,000 Cloudflare Durable Objects: $4,050/month cut to $22 with one trick — threepointone · 2026-10-16
- NVIDIA ships FP4-quantized Qwen3.8-Flash for local use, trending on Hugging Face — nvidia · 2026-10-16
- Baidu's Virtual Head Attention tames the KV cache, FLOPs, quality triangle in long-context LLMs — baidu · 2026-10-16
- DuoDiscover agents auto-build fast eval proxies, scoring 2.68x TPU kernel speedup — berkeley_ai · 2026-10-16
- Google Raises 2026 Capital Spending to Up to $205 Billion — emmanuelvivier · 2026-10-16