Nik Butler

Starship Engineer @SpaceX | Builder |
Alaskan | Mountaineering

[Nik Butler @NikolaiButler]

@peacetmw Certainly possible with a big enough press (not necessarily Tesla's giga press), but we chose a different process that gave us better tolerance for this compound curvature shape and slightly simpler tooling.

[Nik Butler @NikolaiButler]

Not proud of the first nose production line for sn1 starship, but we made it work and it's pretty nice now in the factory 👌

[ZaxtR @AmX_ZaxTr]

What will it be like in 10 years? 😲👀👽

[Nik Butler @NikolaiButler]

@Rogerstigers First make it exist, then make it great 🚀

[Thomas Grote @Thomas_L_Grote]

I am vigorously working on addressing the talent and people bottlenecks to scale super compute facilities. If you think you can help or if you have any good ideas, I’m always scouting for people, processes, and programs to help.

[Nik Butler @NikolaiButler]

Three major subassemblies can run in parallel in this production line, drastically reducing serial duration to build the product and overall line length.

[Kyle Conner @itskyleconner]

A very high level look underneath Cybercab

Nerd video with much more detail coming soon on YouTube

[Nik Butler @NikolaiButler]

@Thomas_L_Grote Doesn't look like Brownsville

[Nik Butler @NikolaiButler]

Exciting opportunity - need highly skilled folks with a crazy work ethic to build ai infrastructure!

[Thomas Grote @Thomas_L_Grote]

We are hiring for our super compute teams in Memphis and need to build a construction army fast.

This includes engineers, electricians, maintenance technicians, server technicians, plant operators and other roles unique to data center operations and construction.

You must work extremely hard with a maniacal sense of urgency and have a proven track record of exceptional performance in construction or industrial environments.

Apply at https://t.co/OdGHaukF8z or message me if you are ready to help make life multiplanetary.

[Nik Butler @NikolaiButler]

@clairevo @bot I made a bot for sourcing candidates. Trained it on what I think makes a quality candidate for the roles I am looking for, and showed it what previous good hires looked like. Then it scrubs sources like LinkedIn, makes connections, and sends me lists of candidates daily.

[Nik Butler @NikolaiButler]

Same! 🤷
Most of us are probably similar. We believe in what we are building.

[Thomas Grote @Thomas_L_Grote]

Someone asked me if I sold any SpaceX stock yet, so wanted everyone to know the answer.

I have never sold a single share of SpaceX stock and I do not plan to.

Why would I ever sell a single share of the world’s best company? The mission matters to many of us more than money.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Nvidia today announced that @SpaceXAI will deploy Vera CPUs to accelerate its next generation of agentic AI applications.

"SpaceXAI plans to expand its AI infrastructure behind Grok on Nvidia Vera Rubin, while extending an optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 into space with its first-generation Starmind satellite.

SpaceXAI’s work with Nvidia is moving beyond AI factories on Earth. SpaceXAI is developing AI computing infrastructure for orbit, where power, thermal management, bandwidth, reliability and physical integration impose dramatically different constraints from conventional data centers.

SpaceXAI’s planned first-generation Starmind AI satellite will be based on the optimized Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system, extending the same accelerated computing architecture powering next-generation AI factories on Earth into space.

Nvidia and SpaceXAI are working to adapt that foundation to the requirements of orbital computing while preserving a common Nvidia architecture and software ecosystem.

This delivers one computing foundation across a wide range of environments: Vera CPUs accelerating increasingly sophisticated AI agents, Vera Rubin powering the AI infrastructure behind Grok and gigawatt-scale AI factories on Earth, and Nvidia accelerated computing extending into orbital AI infrastructure."

[SpaceXAI Memphis @SpaceXAIMemphis]

Our Memphis and Southaven sites will be powered by the world’s largest grid-connected battery pack, reducing the cost of electricity to local communities and increasing the reliability of their local power systems

[Sean Frank @Seanfrank]

I was incredibly concerned with the debt.

Now I get it.

It’s never going down.
The budget will never get balanced.
Both parties don’t care and if they say they do they are lying.

Fighting about taxes is silly.
We can’t tax our way out of it.
There isn’t enough tax revenue to be extracted.

We are going to print our way out of it.
5% real inflation forever.

What’s 40 trillion in debt if we inflate the gdp to 100 trillion?

It’s the only choice.
Both sides want to keep spending.

My thesis the next 30 years:
The dollar will be worth less tomorrow than today.

The government will promise anything and spend everything.

Plan accordingly.

[Cursor @cursor_ai]

Cursor is now part of @SpaceX.

Today, we have officially closed our acquisition. We will join the @SpaceXAI team to help make Grok the world's most useful AI and improve Grok Build, Grok Bot, Grok API, Cursor, and more.

SpaceX has built some of the most inspiring and impressive technology in the world, and we’re grateful for the opportunity to become part of such a special company. Onwards.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

so they just... caught up? in three years?!
grok is now frontier

how does he do it?!

[moriah @Moriah_Nagy]

I’m going to Colossus in Memphis for the first time this weekend and looking for hardcore problem solvers to come with me!

SpaceXAI is building at an unprecedented scale and speed.

If you are an engineer who wants to understand the universe and expand the light cone of consciousness…join us in Memphis for our hiring event THIS weekend! DMs are open if interested.

Let’s go see the largest AI super cluster together! You may even leave with a job offer! 💵

[SpaceXAI @SpaceXAI]

Introducing Grok 4.6.

It delivers frontier intelligence and is a significant improvement over Grok 4.5 at the same price.

[Nik Butler @NikolaiButler]

@ChipHaze Yes

[Cosmic Perspective @considercosmos]

Starship in slow motion, filmed at 2400 FPS 🎥