Nvidia's 88-core Vera chip will be getting put to work for Elon Musk twice over, first and foremost as the standalone CPU orchestrating Grok's AI agents in SpaceXAI's data centers and, from the fourth quarter of 2027, inside the company's first Starmind satellite. Nvidia announced the deployment yesterday, making SpaceXAI the second hyperscaler after Meta to commit to Vera outside full Vera Rubin racks, with Musk supplying the launch window in a post on X. Nvidia claims the chip completes agentic, reinforcement learning, and data processing tasks up to 1.8 times faster than x86 processors, but that figure hasn't been independently verified.
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