Starmind: Elon's Perhaps-Imaginary AI Megaconstellation Gets a Name
What if the biggest IPO of all time was based on complete and utter fantasy?Credit: SpaceX
Well, it's official. The proposed mega-constellation of AI data center satellites from SpaceX has a name: Starmind. That dovetails nicely with projects like Starlink and the Starship spacecraft, and it implies that real progress is being made toward the idea.
This is, unfortunately, nonsense.
The fact is that artificial intelligence companies (well beyond just Elon and xAI) have been reverse-engineering their approaches for a while now. First, the dream was directly profitable AI, but that was almost immediately shown to be impossible. So the solution had to be the same as before: centralization.
Thus, the dedicated AI data centerwas born, and eventually the gigawatt uber-AI data center, too. These weren't dreamed up because they were directly proven to be good ideas; rather, they were arrived at out of necessity. It's less that data...
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