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NVIDIA: SpaceXAI will deploy Vera CPU to accelerate proxy-based AI and expand the Vera Rubin platform to space-based computing

NVIDIA officially announced that SpaceXAI will deploy the NVIDIA Vera CPU to accelerate its next-generation agent-based AI applications. Vera is the first CPU specifically built for AI agents, featuring 88 NVIDIA self-developed Olympus cores, utilizing spatial multithreading technology and LPDDR5X high-bandwidth memory, with a bandwidth of up to 1.2TB/s. In scenarios such as agent-based AI, reinforcement learning, and data processing, the task completion speed can be improved by up to 1.8 times compared to x86 CPUs.Mike Nicolls, President of SpaceXAI, stated that the CPU performance and memory bandwidth of Vera are sufficient to support large-scale task orchestration, code execution, and data processing, allowing GPUs to operate at peak efficiency, thus gaining more effective output per watt of computation.SpaceXAI also plans to expand the AI infrastructure behind Grok based on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, moving towards gigawatt-level computing capacity. Vera Rubin integrates NVIDIA accelerated computing, NVLink interconnect, Spectrum-X networking, and BlueField data processing technologies, aiming to reduce the cost per token and improve the overall energy efficiency of AI factories.More notably, SpaceXAI will send an optimized version of the Vera Rubin NVL72 system into space, with its first-generation Starmind AI satellite adopting this rack-level architecture, becoming the first iconic deployment of NVIDIA accelerated computing extending from ground data centers to orbital computing.

The head of Zondacrypto faces fraud charges and seeks a reduced sentence in exchange for testimony

Przemysław Kral, the head of the Polish cryptocurrency exchange Zondacrypto, is reportedly facing criminal charges for involvement in a large-scale fraud and has begun cooperating with Polish prosecutors. According to Polish media Onet, Kral is seeking a reduced sentence in exchange for testimony, which may involve Zondacrypto's funding of right-wing political figures.Prosecutors estimate that Zondacrypto customers have lost at least 2.4 billion Polish złoty (approximately 650 million USD). Investigators claim that the exchange only used a portion of customer funds to purchase cryptocurrencies, while the remaining funds were transferred to private accounts controlled by Zondacrypto's management. Kral has remained silent on X since mid-April when he publicly disclosed that Zondacrypto could not access a cold wallet holding approximately 4,500 bitcoins. He denies misappropriating funds, stating that the private keys for the wallet were supposed to be handed over by Zonda's founder and former CEO Sylwester Suszek, who has been missing since 2022.Reports also state that Zondacrypto was a major sponsor of the Polish CPAC conference, which took place before the second round of the presidential election, ultimately won by Karol Nawrocki. The exchange spent 37 million złoty on advertising with the broadcasting station Telewizja Republika in the last year, while Kral's company also made payments to foundations associated with politicians Zbigniew Ziobro and Przemysław Wipler.

first_img Stanford professor releases venture capital firm rankings: 5% of VCs generate 90% of industry profits, 21 new firms enter the top 100

Stanford Business School Professor Ilya Strebulaev, in collaboration with Blake Jackson, released the 2026 Strebulaev-Jackson Venture Capital Firm Rankings, based on nearly 30 years of data from over 230,000 investments and nearly 13,000 VCs. The research estimates that about 5% of VCs generate approximately 90% of the industry's profits. The top five are Sequoia Capital (10,158 points), Andreessen Horowitz (8,292 points), Accel, DST Global, and Tiger Global. Among them, Parkway Venture Capital (19th place) and Notable (20th place) made it into the top 20, but are not well-known leading brands.The rankings are based on six major factors: discount valuation, dilution adjustment, net profit (after costs), value added (lead investments and board seats), human capital decay (three-and-a-half-year half-life), and credit allocation between institutions and individuals (25% for the investing institution and 75% for the current institution). Of the top 100, 62 are located in California, 19 in New York, and 6 each in Massachusetts and Texas. 21 were established in 2015 or later, and 23 of the best investments are in frontier AI or AI infrastructure companies, with OpenAI listed as the best investment by 4 firms, xAI by 3, and Anthropic and Perplexity by 2 each. The ranking methodology has a correlation of only about 0.27 with the Midas List, with SV Angel investing in about 139 unicorns ranked 31st, and Thrive with only 47 unicorns ranked 8th. This ranking is the result of research by Stanford professors and does not constitute investment advice.
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