Musk says SpaceX will launch Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 AI computers to orbit next year
XFreeze · x · 2026-09-14
XFreeze relays Elon Musk's claim that SpaceX will deploy Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 AI computers in space next year, with a space-optimized design that is simpler, cheaper, denser and lighter than a traditional rack.
- Vera Rubin NVL72: 72 Rubin GPUs, 36 Vera CPUs, 20.7 TB of HBM4, 3,600 PFLOPS of NVFP4 compute
- Starmind AI1 satellite: 75-meter wingspan (wider than a Boeing 747), 250 kW peak / 175 kW average power, sun-synchronous orbit, radiative cooling into space, laser links into Starlink
- Timeline: first systems in orbit next year, significant scale targeted for 2028
The author argues SpaceX has solved the core engineering problems for orbital AI compute, comparing the skepticism to what Starlink once faced.
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