Elon Musk Says SpaceX Targeting Q4 2027 Launch for Nvidia-Powered AI System—Touts ‘Lower Cost, Denser and Lighter' Design

SpaceXAI, the artificial intelligence arm of Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ: SPCX), is adopting Nvidia Corp.‘s (NASDAQ: NVDA) Vera CPUs as Elon Musk touts a more cost-effective, space-optimized Vera Rubin system for orbital AI.

Space-Optimized Vera Rubin On Monday, Musk took to the social media platform X, quoting a post by the chipmaker that revealed the Vera Rubin, touting it as “the first CPU built for agents is going to work at scale,” adding that SpaceX would be deploying the CPU.

Musk, in his post, said that SpaceX had “designed a space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system for launch to orbit in Q4 next year, with significant scale in 2028.”

In the same thread, Musk outlined that SpaceX’s design was “significantly s...