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SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open source AI lab
TechCrunch • • business
Key Points:
- Reflection AI has secured a $6.3 billion deal with SpaceX for access to Nvidia’s latest GB300 AI chips and hardware at SpaceX’s Colossus 2 data center, paying $150 million monthly from July 2026 through 2029.
- This contract is smaller than SpaceX’s existing deals with Anthropic and Google, which cost $1.25 billion and $920 million per month respectively, but all contracts have flexible termination options after an initial period.
- Reflection AI, founded in 2024 by former Google DeepMind researchers, promotes an open-weight AI strategy as an open source alternative to closed models from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI.
- The startup highlights the importance of open source AI amid growing concerns about reliance on closed models, positioning its SpaceX deal as a significant infrastructure commitment to advance open AI development at scale.
