Elon Musk's SpaceXAI to add another 660,000 AI GPUs this year, nearing a total of 1.44 million in operation — firm is building 1.2-gigawatt power plant to bring systems fully online

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Elon Musk said SpaceXAI will add 660,000 AI GPUs this year, reaching about 1.44 million total, while building a 1.2‑gigawatt power plant to run them.

OpenAI has effectively abandoned first-party Stargate data centers in favor of more flexible deals — company now prefers to lease compute and says Stargate is an umbrella term
OpenAI has abandoned building first-party Stargate data centers in favor of leasing compute from third parties like Oracle and Microsoft.
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The Steady Hand at SpaceX Is Not Elon Musk
Gwynne Shotwell serves as the stabilizing force at SpaceX, counterbalancing Elon Musk, as the company readies for a blockbuster IPO.
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xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab - Martin Alderson
xAI's GPU rental deals with Anthropic and Google transform it into a datacenter REIT-like business, driven by financial engineering, compute shortages, and infrastructure advantages.
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Designing Grok Bot for a world of persistent agents
Grok Bot redesigns AI agents as persistent Bots with avatars, presence cues, personal computers, and routine‑driven work that starts without a user prompt.
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Thinking in Systems, Shipping in Loops
AI has eliminated manual coding, shifting software engineering to designing verification loops and system architecture, as evidenced by high PR throughput at Artemis and SpaceXAI.
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