Please enjoy this Cheeky Pint / @dwarkesh_sp crossover with @elonmusk.
Dwarkesh was most interested in how Elon is going to make space datacenters work. I was most interested in Elon's method for attacking hard technical problems, and why it hasn’t been replicated as much as you might expect. But we got into plenty of topics in this three-hour session.
00:00:23 Space GPUs
00:35:39 Alignment
00:58:48 xAI
01:15:01 Optimus
01:28:03 China
01:40:46 Management
02:16:38 DOGE
02:34:58 Space GPUs redux
Less than 24 hours to launch with our 8th mission for @synspective🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉. Operations start overnight for our 7:10 a.m. NZDT liftoff to deliver another StriX satellite to LEO for Earth observation.
Target Launch:
🚀 7:10 am NZDT, March 21
🚀 3:10 am JST, March 21
🚀 18:10 UTC, March 20
🚀 2:10 pm EDT, March 20
🚀 11:10 am PDT, March 20
🚨 NVIDIA JUST ANNOUNCED DATA CENTERS IN SPACE
Jensen Huang:
>we’re going into space
>we’ve already been out in space
>announces “Vera Rubin Space-1”
>"in space there's no conduction, no convection, just radiation"
>"we have to figure out how to cool these systems in space"
>"we've got lots of great engineers working on it"
GPUs IN SPACE INCOMING