NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) announced Monday that SpaceXAI, the artificial intelligence arm of SpaceX (SPCX), will deploy its Vera CPUs to power the next generation of agentic AI applications. The partnership also expands SpaceXAI's infrastructure for Grok, and the company plans to bring NVIDIA's accelerated computing technology into orbit with its first Starmind AI satellite.

Vera Targets Agentic AI Workloads

Agentic AI systems rely on CPUs to coordinate tools, run code, process data, and manage simulations between model requests. SpaceXAI plans to use the NVIDIA Vera CPU for these tasks while keeping graphics processing units fully utilized. Vera features 88 NVIDIA-designed Olympus cores and high-bandwidth LPDDR5X memory, delivering up to 1.2 terabytes per second of memory bandwidth. NVIDIA says Vera can complete certain AI, reinforcement learning, and data-processing tasks up to 1.8 times faster than x86 CPUs.

Mike Nicolls, president of SpaceXAI, said the technology should improve AI agent performance while allowing the company to extract more work from each watt of computing power.

Grok Infrastructure Expands

SpaceXAI will also expand Grok's computing infrastructure with the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform. This system combines computing, networking, data processing, and software technologies. The platform will support SpaceXAI as it scales toward gigawatts of computing capacity, handling AI training, reasoning, and inference workloads across large data centers.

NVIDIA Technology Heads Into Orbit

SpaceXAI's first-generation Starmind AI satellite will use an optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system. NVIDIA and SpaceXAI will adapt the architecture to meet the power, cooling, bandwidth, and reliability demands of orbital computing.

NVDA Price Action: NVIDIA shares were down 1.88% at $210.68 at the time of publication on Monday, according to market data.