StarCloud
A space computing company building satellites with GPUs and data centers in space for AI workloads.
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How StarCloud compares
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Elon Musk's private space company
SpaceX is partnering with StarCloud on laser technology. Katelin says no one needs to catch SpaceX for StarCloud to win.
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SpaceX is partnering with StarCloud on laser technology. Katelin says no one needs to catch SpaceX for StarCloud to win.
"I truly fell in love with Philip and the whole StarCloud team. What I was in love with was there was an incredible audacity to what it was they were doing and a fearlessness that came with that audacity. Nobody has to catch SpaceX for an..."
Compared to SpaceX's potential competing orbital data centers; positioned as complementary rather than competitive
"Our friends at Benchmark, they funded StarCloud and StarCloud is an orbital compute company that SpaceX is kind of partnering with. They're going to let them use the Starlink laser technology which is really important for orbital compute..."
Funded without SpaceX's internal launch cost advantage, which Gavin notes as a sanity check on orbital compute viability
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"I truly fell in love with Philip and the whole StarCloud team. What I was in love with was there was an incredible audacity to what it was they were doing and a fearlessness that came with that audacity. Nobody has to catch SpaceX for another comp..."
More from Katelin Holloway →"Our friends at Benchmark, they funded StarCloud and StarCloud is an orbital compute company that SpaceX is kind of partnering with. They're going to let them use the Starlink laser technology which is really important for orbital compute. I do thi..."
More from Gavin Baker →"All had Philip on here, our guy from StarCloud — data centers in space, crazy ambitious infrastructure play."
More from Alexis Ohanian →
"StarCloud is in talks for $2.2 billion valuation after SpaceX level of interest in orbital data centers skyrocketed. The company is building orbital data centers powered by solar energy. They launched their first H100 into space in 2025."
More from Peter Diamandis →"Hi, I am Adi Oltean, co-founder and chief engineer at Star Cloud, building data centers in space."
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"We launched our first spacecraft, StarCloud 1, in November last year. It had actually five GPUs — two from Arm and three from Nvidia, but the most important one was the Nvidia H100. We were the first to train a model in space. We trained nano GPT ..."
More from Philip Johnston →+2 more mentions from Philip
"Philip Johnston, founder and CEO of StarCloud, the orbital data center company."
"Hello, my name is Philip Johnston and I am the co-founder and CEO of StarCloud building data centers in space."
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