Elon pledges to give Nvidia a virtual monopoly over the stars
In space, no one can hear you scream when the LLMs hallucinate
Nvidia commands about 85 percent of the datacenter GPU market today, and if Elon Musk has his way, the AI infrastructure giant will have a virtual monopoly over the stars.
On Tuesday, Musk wrote on the social media network he owns that “SpaceX has committed to using Nvidia GPUs exclusively because they are the best.”
The collab should surprise absolutely no one. It’s not like AMD or anyone else out there is making hardened versions of their GPUs for orbital datacenters. Why, you might ask? Well, to quote one Gartner analyst, the idea that space-based datacenters will ever be economically viable is “peak insanity.” Nvidia just happens to have $13.2 billion in cash to burn on pipe dreams like these.
Specifically, SpaceX says that it will be deploying Nvidia’s Space-1, a specialized version of its...
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