SpaceXAI to use Nvidia 'Vera' chips for agentic AI apps and 'Starmind' AI satellites

NVIDIA announced that SpaceXAI will deploy its Vera CPUs to accelerate agentic AI applications and power orbital AI data centers with the Starmind satellite. The Vera CPU, featuring 88 NVIDIA-designed Olympus cores and up to 1.2TB/s bandwidth, delivers up to 1.8x faster task completion compared with x86 CPUs. Ian Buck, NVIDIA's vice president of hyperscale and high-performance computing, said Vera gives AI agents the CPU performance to act in real time.

Featured Story ZTE sees network business slump, costs soar and jobs vanish China's ZTE reports a widening delta between revenues and profits as its expensive-to-run enterprise unit powers ahead of networks on sales growth. Nvidia said SpaceXAI will use its 'Vera' CPUs to help it speed up a new generation of agentic AI applications and for its planned orbital AI data centers. pressrelease August 24, 2026 NVIDIA 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. Agentic 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. SpaceXAI 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. "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." NVIDIA 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. Vera 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. Read the full press release here. https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/spacexai-adopts-nvidia-vera-cpu-to-accelerate-agentic-ai-at-massive-scale