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Elon and SpaceX Have Made AI Training 10 Times Faster

Elon is saying SpaceX built its own super-optimized AI training software from scratch in the C programming language. It is 10 times faster than Google JAX framework. It’s designed to run on a massive cluster of 220,000 cutting-edge NVIDIA GB300 GPUs connected by ultra-fast 800G networks. They use pipeline parallelism and get as close to ... Read more
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Critical Insights Days Before the SPACEX IPO

Elon Musk and SpaceX Have the High Ground. How much will that matter? SpaceX already has almost all of the satellites and launches. He will is making them ten to 100 times better in the year or two. Are the bears right when they say that SpaceX will only be a bit more profitable than ... Read more

Have Industries, World and GDP Have Been Transformed Before?

I have an article about replatforming and how business can become radically bigger, faster and more profitable with new technologies and processes. But here we focus on actual transformation and step changes to the world and industries. The Industrial revolution had 10-20X the annual GDP growth rate of the Agrarian or pre-industrial ages. The stone ... Read more

SpaceX Market Sizes Are Replatforming – AI and Space Are Replatforming Telecom, IT and Business

In order to understand the addressable market case for many of the AI and space markets you must understand replatforming. Replatforming is when a fundamentally better technology platform displaces or layers on top of the old infrastructure and business models. It wins because it offers lower costs, vastly better scalability, broader accessibility, and new capabilities ... Read more

XAI Building Money Printing AI Data Centers Faster and Cheaper While Others Are Canceled or Delayed

XAI AI data center economics are even better when you can start a project and finish it in 12 months and get it rented and paid off while competitors are still building. An active AI Gigawatt of data center in the hand is worth $20 billion per year while an under construction Gigawatt data center ... Read more

Mars-Venus-Phobos and Deimos Manned Flyby Mission Starting 2034

2034 Earth–Venus–Mars opportunity looks promising. 10–15 on-orbit refueling operations may be needed to make a crewed ship full. (A version 4 Starship could refuel with five tanker launches. Most refueling can be done at an altitude of 180–200 km, made possible by Starship’s size. The final refueling may be performed at a higher altitude of ... Read more

XAI $15 Billion Per Year AI Rental to Anthropic Details

Freda Duan estimates XAI Colossus 1 has ~$6B annual rent. Colossus 2 is leasing roughly one-third of its total compute capacity to $Anthropic. I am extending the analysis to renting out one third to one half of the new construction. This does not included distributed compute from Tesla cars, Tesla bots, new servers with Tesla ... Read more