Star cloudAn Nvidia Corp.-backed (NASDAQ:NVDA) company, trained an AI model from orbit amid a hustle and bustle around space-based AI data center satellites.
Starcloud used Nvidia’s H-100 chip to train AI from space
The Washington-based startup launched the Nvidia H-100 GPU, which has 100 times the computing power of other chips previously launched into orbit, CNBC reported on Wednesday. The company has undergone training Alphabet Inc.‘s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) Googling‘s open LLM Gemma from orbit via its Starcloud-1 satellite.
Starcloud was also able to train an LLM created by former Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) AI leader Andrei Karpathycalled NanoGPT, from orbit around the works of Shakespeare, the report suggests.
Starcloud describes itself as a company that wants to build “large data centers in space that are scalable and cost-competitive much faster” than their counterparts on Earth. According to the startup’s white paper, the company wants to create an orbital data center 2.4 miles high and 2.4 miles wide, with a capacity of 5 gigawatts, with solar and cooling panels in orbit.
An important step
CEO and co-founder of Starcloud Philip Johnston praised the achievement in a post on social media platform
The goals of Elon Musk’s orbital data center
The news comes as CEO of SpaceX Elon Musk has reiterated its ambition to deploy solar-powered AI satellites in space, which would be a more cost-effective solution than data centers on Earth.
The billionaire recently shared that SpaceX was targeting 1 Megaton per year for AI satellites, which Musk said will deliver “100 GW of AI addition to space.” He also praised building factories on the lunar surface, which would facilitate the launch of AI satellites into deep space.
Musk also confirmed that SpaceX is preparing for its IPO next year, targeting a valuation of $1.5 trillion. This comes after Musk hinted at the possibility of an IPO for SpaceX during Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting last month.
Nvidia vs. Michael Burry
Meanwhile, “The Big Short” investor Michael Burry has raised questions about Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang‘s comments about the company Blackwell GPU Shipments, urging users to share photos of the GPUs being stored in “mass quantities” in the US and abroad.
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