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Reflection AI Secures $6.3B Chip Deal with SpaceX
22 Jun
Summary
- Reflection AI to pay $150 million monthly for AI chips.
- The deal runs from July 2026 through 2029.
- The company champions open-weight AI as an alternative.
Beginning July 1, 2026, Reflection AI will pay SpaceX $150 million each month until 2029 for crucial access to Nvidia's latest AI chips and hardware. This substantial agreement, potentially reaching $6.3 billion, will utilize SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center in Tennessee.
The deal marks a significant step for Reflection AI, a startup founded in 2024 by former Google DeepMind researchers. It strongly advocates for an open-weight AI strategy, presenting it as a competitive alternative to proprietary models offered by companies like Anthropic and OpenAI.
This compute access is vital for Reflection's mission to build world-class open models at scale. The company highlights the increasing global recognition of risks and costs associated with over-reliance on closed AI systems, positioning this deal as a strategic move within the frontier AI landscape.
SpaceX's Colossus data center, originally built by Elon Musk's xAI, is now being leveraged to rent out its valuable AI chip inventory to leading AI labs as internal pursuits have shifted.
