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SpaceX signs computing power deal with open-source AI startup Reflection worth up to $6.3 billion
SpaceX has turned its Colossus data center into a commercial computing power platform, landing recent deals with Anthropic, Google and Cursor.
TL;DR
- SpaceX has signed a $6.3 billion computing power agreement with open-source AI startup Reflection AI.
- Reflection AI will gain access to Nvidia GB300 chips and utilize SpaceX's Colossus infrastructure.
- The deal highlights SpaceX's strategy to monetize its data center build-out by offering computing power to external AI companies.
- SpaceX has previously struck similar deals with Anthropic, Google, and is acquiring Cursor.
- The agreement comes at a time when open-source AI is gaining momentum due to concerns about reliance on closed AI systems.
- Reflection AI aims to build American open-source AI models to compete with frontier systems from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
- The deal allows SpaceX to justify its growing AI infrastructure narrative to investors.
- Access to advanced Nvidia chips is a significant constraint in the AI race, and SpaceX is capitalizing on this scarcity.