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.
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SpaceX plans to build Starmind orbital AI satellites around optimized NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 computing, with initial launches expected in 2027.
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 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 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 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.
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 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 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 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 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.
Meta plans to begin manufacturing its in-house Iris AI chip in September as it aims to double computing capacity to 14 gigawatts next year and cut its reliance on Nvidia.
OpenAI released GPT-Live, full-duplex voice models that listen and speak at once and hand hard questions to GPT-5.5, replacing ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode globally.
Apple expanded its partnership with Broadcom in a multi-year deal worth more than $30 billion, its largest US manufacturing commitment, to produce over 15 billion American-made chips.
Nvidia’s Kyber rack for its 2027 Rubin Ultra chips has slipped more than a year to 2028 over a hard-to-manufacture circuit board, SemiAnalysis says, with no proven fallback.
About $2.3 trillion was wiped from the Magnificent 7 in June as investors questioned Big Tech’s huge AI spending, even as chip and memory stocks kept climbing.