With xAI barely using any compute capacity, its parent company, SpaceX, is now aggressively lending out computing resources of the Colossus 1 data center to monetize its heretofore idle resources, all in a bid to improve its IPO-related prospects. As a case in point, SpaceX has just inked an agreement to furnish Google with scarce computing resources after recently inking a similar agreement with Anthropic. SpaceX will furnish Google with "110,000 NVIDIA GPUs, CPUs, memory, and other related components," with the agreement capable of being canceled by either party on a 90-day notice SpaceX has just filed a disclosure with […]

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Elon Muks's xAI has gone all in on natural gas, while SpaceX is obsessed with orbital data centers. What happened to the "solar-electric economy" he promised?

Musk, who will have more than 50% of the voting power, will have a monarchical grip over the publicly-traded version of SpaceX — control that goes far beyond what other tech founders enjoy.

SpaceX has finally made the contents of its IPO filing public, weeks ahead of what is expected to be the largest IPO ever and one that will make Musk the CEO, CTO, and chairman of the board.

Elon Musk's xAI said it will buy $2.8 billion worth of natural gas turbines over the next three years, according to SpaceX's IPO filing.

Elon Musk's xAI surprised the AI world when it made a deal to sell compute to Anthropic. Now we know how much it's worth.

More than 50 employees have reportedly left Elon Musk’s newly merged SpaceXAI since February, raising questions about burnout, leadership changes, talent poaching, and whether liquidity events weakened retention incentives.

Gas turbines at xAI's Colossus 2 data center have drawn a lawsuit over the company's use of "mobile" gas turbines as power plants.

Google and SpaceX are in talks to build data centers in orbit, pitching space as the future home for AI compute, even as costs today remain far higher than on the ground.

NVIDIA is reaching for the stars, literally, as the company plans to build its future AI datacenters in outer space as terrestrial resources become a major constraint. Our Planet Might Not Be Able To Sustain Future AI Datacenter Demands. That's Why NVIDIA Is Looking Into Space As The Next Horizon For AI Chips Outer Space is becoming the new real estate gold mine for AI datacenters. Building data centers in space can be costly, but as commercial spaceships such as SpaceX's Starship and Falcon Heavy become viable, companies are seeing outer space as the new frontier to scale out their […]

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On the latest episode of the Equity podcast, we discussed what xAI's deal with Anthropic might mean for parent company SpaceX.

Anthropic signed a deal this week for the SpaceX Colossus 1 data center compute capacity which hit home at STH since we took you on a tour

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Intel is on a roll today as it has not only managed to bag a deal with Apple, but its cutting-edge Oregon Fab also got a visit by Elon Musk. Intel's 18A Fab in Oregon Sees a Surprise Visit by Elon Musk, Paving the Way for AI Chip Supply Allocation Ahead of TeraFab Bring-Up? A deal with Apple and now a visit by Elon Musk, today seems to be Intel's day. It is reported that Elon Musk has toured Intel's state-of-the-art Oregon fab, which is part of its Foundry business & producing cutting-edge chips such as Panther Lake CPUs on […]

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xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models. 

The project would be a "multi-phase, next-generation, vertically integrated semiconductor manufacturing and advanced computing fabrication facility," according to the proposal.

xAI is reportedly able to utilize just over 10% of its entire NVIDIA GPU fleet, as report suggests lackluster AI software stack optimizations. AI Software Stack Bottlenecks Are An Industry-Wide Problem, As xAI Is Only Able To Utilize 11% of Its Entire NVIDIA GPU Installation. The Information has reported that Elon Musk's xAI, the software firm behind Gorq and other key AI-based components, is only able to utilize a small chunk of its total installed GPU capacity. Currently, xAI runs around 550,000 NVIDIA GPUs, which are a combination of H100s and H200s. These are deployed within xAI's Memphis and Colussus […]

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X's AI-powered custom timelines are replacing Communities, with Grok-curated feeds...and new ad slots.

Elon Musk confirms that SpaceX & Tesla will always remain a major customer of TSMC, but the Taiwanese chipmaker alone couldn't fulfill its demand, which is why they started the Terafab project with Intel. Terafab Is Essential To Elon's Ambitious "In-House" Chipmaking Goals, But Says That SpaceX & Tesla Will Remain A Customer of TSMC A few days ago, Lip-Bu Tan (CEO of Intel) and Elon Musk announced their partnership on the ground-breaking Terafab project, which will be responsible for producing custom and in-house chips for Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, and other ventures. The project is expected to begin its first […]

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