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Elon Musk says SpaceX will exclusively use Nvidia GPUs 'because they are the best' — says optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 will be launched into space next year
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Elon Musk on Tuesday said in an X post that SpaceX and xAI will exclusively use Nvidia GPUs because 'they are the best.'
SpaceX has committed to using Nvidia GPUs exclusively because they are the bestAugust 4, 2026"Going forward, we have decided to build exclusively on Nvidia, because we think the Vera Rubin architecture is the best architecture," Elon Musk said during SpaceX's earnings call.
Interestingly, but Musk's SpaceX plans to deploy Vera Rubin not only in its own and xAI's data centers, but also in space.
36 Vera CPUs and 72 Rubin AI GPUs offer rather formidable performance, though many questions remain about the cooling and reliability of such racks in space.
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