Vera Chip Powers SpaceXAI's AI Agents in Data Centers and Satellite
Nvidia's Vera chip is set to power SpaceXAI's AI agents in both its data centers and a satellite, marking the second large-scale deployment of the chip after Meta.
The agreement, announced by Nvidia yesterday, will see the standalone 88-core Vera CPU used for Grok's agentic workloads, with performance claims suggesting it can complete tasks up to 1.8 times faster than x86 processors.
SpaceXAI's president, Mike Nicolls, said that the Vera chip provides the necessary CPU performance and memory bandwidth to run enormous amounts of orchestration, code, and data processing while keeping GPUs doing what they do best.
The company has designed a space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system for launch in Q4 next year, with significant scale-up planned for 2028.