{"slug": "spacexai-adopts-nvidia-vera-cpu-to-accelerate-agentic-ai-at-massive-scale", "title": "SpaceXAI Adopts NVIDIA Vera CPU to Accelerate Agentic AI at Massive Scale", "summary": "NVIDIA announced that SpaceXAI will deploy NVIDIA Vera CPUs to accelerate its next generation of agentic AI applications, including the AI infrastructure behind Grok, and plans to extend the optimized NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 system into orbit with its first-generation Starmind AI satellite. The Vera CPU, featuring 88 NVIDIA-designed Olympus cores and up to 1.2TB/s of memory bandwidth, enables up to 1.8x faster task completion compared with x86 CPUs for agentic AI workloads. NVIDIA's vice president Ian Buck and SpaceXAI's president Mike Nicolls highlighted the performance and efficiency benefits for real-time AI agent actions and scaling toward gigawatts of computing capacity.", "body_md": "**News Summary:**\n\n- SpaceXAI will deploy NVIDIA Vera CPUs to accelerate the work behind its next generation of agentic AI workloads.\n- SpaceXAI is expanding its AI infrastructure for Grok with the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform as it scales toward gigawatts of computing capacity.\n- SpaceXAI plans to extend its use of NVIDIA accelerated computing into space, with the first-generation Starmind AI satellite based on an optimized NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 system.\n\nNVIDIA today announced that SpaceXAI will deploy [ NVIDIA Vera CPUs](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/vera-cpu/) to accelerate its next generation of agentic AI applications, bringing the first CPU built for AI agents to one of the world’s most ambitious AI deployments.\n\nAgentic AI applications increasingly rely on CPUs to orchestrate tools, execute code, process data and run simulations between model calls. SpaceXAI will use Vera to accelerate these application workloads, helping AI agents act faster while keeping GPUs fed and fully utilized.\n\nSpaceXAI plans to expand its AI infrastructure behind Grok on [ NVIDIA Vera Rubin](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/technologies/rubin/), while extending an optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 into space with its first-generation Starmind satellite.\n\n“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.”\n\n“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.”\n\n**NVIDIA Vera — The CPU for Agents**\n\nNVIDIA Vera is the first CPU built for AI agents, designed to accelerate the CPU-intensive work that surrounds model inference — from tool use and code execution to data processing, orchestration and simulation.\n\nVera features 88 NVIDIA-designed Olympus cores, NVIDIA Spatial Multithreading technology and high-bandwidth LPDDR5X memory, delivering up to 1.2TB/s of bandwidth. Vera enables up to 1.8x faster task completion compared with x86 CPUs across workloads including agentic AI, reinforcement learning and data processing.\n\n**SpaceXAI Scales AI Infrastructure With NVIDIA Vera Rubin**\n\nAt massive scale, AI infrastructure must support demanding training, reasoning and inference workloads while maximizing performance, power efficiency and utilization. NVIDIA Vera Rubin is codesigned across compute, networking and software to optimize the AI factory as a whole.\n\nThe platform brings together NVIDIA accelerated computing, NVIDIA NVLink™ interconnect technology, NVIDIA Spectrum-X™ Ethernet networking, NVIDIA BlueField® data processing and NVIDIA software in an integrated architecture designed to deliver high performance and energy efficiency at scale while driving down cost per token.\n\nAs SpaceXAI expands toward gigawatts of computing capacity, Vera Rubin provides a common architecture to efficiently scale its next generation of AI factories — a foundation SpaceXAI plans to take beyond terrestrial data centers and into orbital computing.\n\n**NVIDIA Accelerated Computing, From Earth to Orbit**\n\nSpaceXAI’s work with NVIDIA is moving beyond AI factories on Earth.\n\nSpaceXAI is developing AI computing infrastructure for orbit, where power, thermal management, bandwidth, reliability and physical integration impose dramatically different constraints from conventional data centers.\n\nSpaceXAI’s 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.\n\nNVIDIA and SpaceXAI are working to adapt that foundation to the requirements of orbital computing while preserving a common NVIDIA architecture and software ecosystem.\n\nThis delivers one computing foundation across a wide range of environments: Vera CPUs accelerating increasingly sophisticated AI agents, Vera Rubin powering the AI infrastructure behind Grok and gigawatt-scale AI factories on Earth, and NVIDIA accelerated computing extending into orbital AI infrastructure.\n\n*Learn more about the *__NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform__* and *__NVIDIA Vera CPU__*.*", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/spacexai-adopts-nvidia-vera-cpu-to-accelerate-agentic-ai-at-massive-scale", "canonical_source": "https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/spacexai-adopts-nvidia-vera-cpu-to-accelerate-agentic-ai-at-massive-scale", "published_at": "2026-08-24 15:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-24 15:15:37.095397+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-agents", "ai-chips"], "entities": ["NVIDIA", "SpaceXAI", "Grok", "NVIDIA Vera CPU", "NVIDIA Vera Rubin", "Starmind AI satellite", "Ian Buck", "Mike Nicolls"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/spacexai-adopts-nvidia-vera-cpu-to-accelerate-agentic-ai-at-massive-scale", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/spacexai-adopts-nvidia-vera-cpu-to-accelerate-agentic-ai-at-massive-scale.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/spacexai-adopts-nvidia-vera-cpu-to-accelerate-agentic-ai-at-massive-scale.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/spacexai-adopts-nvidia-vera-cpu-to-accelerate-agentic-ai-at-massive-scale.jsonld"}}