SpaceX Chooses NVIDIA Rubin for Starmind AI Satellites
SpaceX plans to build Starmind orbital AI satellites around optimized NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 computing, with initial launches expected in 2027.
NVIDIA
NVIDIA is a leading AI infrastructure company providing GPUs, accelerated computing platforms, networking, and software used to train and deploy frontier AI systems.
- Founded 1993
- Headquarters Santa Clara, California, United States
- CEO Jensen Huang
Overview
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Founded
1993
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Headquarters
Santa Clara, California, United States
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Industry
AI Infrastructure
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CEO
Jensen Huang
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Founders
Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, Curtis Priem
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Funding
Public company
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Valuation
Public market capitalization varies
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Employees
42,000+
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA is one of the most important companies in the AI economy, supplying the GPUs, networking systems, software libraries, and full-stack computing platforms used to train and run modern artificial intelligence models. Founded in 1993, the company moved from graphics processing into accelerated computing and became a central infrastructure provider for data centers, cloud providers, AI labs, enterprises, autonomous systems, robotics, and scientific computing.
Its AI business spans GPUs, CUDA, DGX systems, networking, inference software, robotics platforms, and domain-specific tools for healthcare, automotive, simulation, and enterprise workloads. As demand for generative AI and agentic systems has expanded, NVIDIA has become a core supplier for the compute layer behind many leading AI products and services.
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Products & Business
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Products & Services
- GPUs
- CUDA
- DGX systems
- Grace Blackwell
- NVIDIA AI Enterprise
- Omniverse
- Jetson
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Platform & Tools
CUDA, cuDNN, TensorRT, NIM microservices, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Omniverse, Isaac, Jetson, and accelerated computing SDKs.
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Revenue Model
Hardware sales, data center systems, cloud partnerships, enterprise software licensing, developer tools, and ecosystem services.
Key Information
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Business Type
Public AI infrastructure and semiconductor company
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Headquarters
Santa Clara, California, United States
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Founded Date
1993
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Company CEO
Jensen Huang
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Founders
Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, Curtis Priem
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Brands
GeForce, CUDA, DGX, Blackwell, Grace Blackwell, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Omniverse, Jetson
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Categories
News
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Employee Count
42,000+
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Funding
Public company
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Valuation
Public market capitalization varies
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Ownership
Public
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Stock Ticker
NVDA
Latest NVIDIA News
AI Startup Funding Share Falls to 53% as Venture Hits $65B
AI startups captured 53% of global venture funding in July, their lowest share since December, even as total investment reached $65 billion in a record month for mega-rounds.
NVIDIA Bets $5 Billion on Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence
NVIDIA has formed a long-term partnership with Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence, reportedly investing $5 billion and giving the secretive AI lab access to Vera Rubin systems that will expand its computing capacity tenfold.
NVIDIA Launches Open Secure AI Alliance After Hugging Face Breach
NVIDIA has formed the Open Secure AI Alliance with Microsoft, IBM, Palantir, CrowdStrike, and more than 35 other organizations to build open-source defenses for AI agents and software.
NVIDIA Weighs $250 Billion Guarantee for OpenAI Data Center
NVIDIA is reportedly in advanced talks to provide a roughly $250 billion financing guarantee for a vast OpenAI data center in Ohio, potentially helping the ChatGPT maker secure better terms for one of the largest AI infrastructure projects ever proposed.
Startups Urge Trump Not to Block Chinese Open-Weight AI Models
Nearly 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Y Combinator and Proton, urged the Trump administration not to restrict Chinese open-weight AI models, warning it would cripple US startups.
Google Designs a Gemini-Specific AI Chip Called Frozen v2
Google is designing Frozen v2, a chip that hardwires parts of its Gemini model into silicon and could serve six to ten times more tokens per watt, targeting deployment by 2028.
NVIDIA is Uniting Japan’s Robotics Giants to Build AI for the Physical World
NVIDIA unveiled Cosmos 3 Edge and said Japan's robotics and manufacturing leaders, from FANUC to Sony, intend to join its Cosmos Coalition to build AI for the physical world.
SK Hynix Raises $26.5 Billion in Largest Foreign US Listing
SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in its Nasdaq debut, the largest US listing ever by a foreign company, as investors rushed to buy into the AI memory chip boom.
SpaceXAI Launches Grok 4.5, a Cheaper Coding Model Built With Cursor
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, a coding and agentic model trained jointly with Cursor that undercuts rivals on price and token use, though it trails Fable 5 on benchmarks.