Starmind
#1 v AI inferenční hardwareSpacex · od Ankündigung/Partnerschaft: 4. August 2026; erster Satellitenstart geplant für 2027 (laut Elon Musk "nächstes Jahr") · 7× · naposledy 07. 8. 2026
Starmind is a project announced by SpaceX to build an orbital data center: satellites of the "AI1" series are meant to run AI inference hardware (Nvidia chips) directly in space. Each AI1 satellite is designed to carry, at its core, an optimized Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 compute system (72 Rubin GPUs, 36 Vera CPUs), powered by solar arrays and cooled via deployable liquid radiators in vacuum. The project was officially confirmed jointly with Nvidia on August 4, 2026 during SpaceX's first earnings call; no product pricing or an authoritative standalone manufacturer product page exists yet — a website circulating under the "Starmind" name turned out to be an unofficial crypto-token site unrelated to SpaceX.
Vlastnosti
| Manufacturing Process (nm) | Rubin GPU manufactured on TSMC 3nm process (dual-die design) |
| License | Proprietary (SpaceX/Nvidia); architecture described by SpaceX as chip-vendor agnostic |
| Platform | Orbital satellite (AI1) as autonomous compute node, networked via Starlink laser links |
| Price | No official product price published |
| Compute Performance (FLOPS/TOPS) | Based on Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72: up to 3.6 ExaFLOPS NVFP4 inference per rack (72 GPUs) |
| Release Date | Launch of first Starmind AI1 satellites planned for 2027, per Musk on Aug 4, 2026 earnings call |
| Memory | Rack memory of underlying Vera Rubin NVL72: 20.7 TB pooled HBM4 memory |
| Availability | Not yet available; prototype testing planned for early 2027, mass production at Gigasat factory (Bastrop, Texas) targeted for late 2027 |