SpaceX and NVIDIA plan to launch Starmind AI1 satellites to run AI compute in Low Earth Orbit and relay results to Earth using Starlink laser links. Each satellite is described as drawing up to 250 kW at peak and needing deployable liquid radiators totaling 160 square meters. The proposal changes the cooling and networking model of AI infrastructure to reliance on slow infrared heat rejection and optical inter-satellite links, while leaving major risks from debris, space weather, and high launch-cost scaling unresolved.
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang topped Glassdoor’s 2026 Best CEOs list. He received 99% employee approval in the ranking based on U.S. employee reviews collected from May 16, 2025 to May 15, 2026. Glassdoor reintroduced the Best CEOs list after a five-year break and shifted focus from Best-Led Companies to CEO impact on employee experience.
Chris Alexiuk discussed NVIDIA’s Nemotron development, including model scaling, agent systems, and how routing/specalization and multimodal upgrades fit into production AI workflows. Nemotron 3 ships in three tiers with active parameter counts of about 3B, 12B, and 50B. The focus shifts from chatbots to long-running agent execution, enabled by smaller, cheaper models like Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and by evolving model routing toward broader orchestration layers for end users.
Scott Strazik, CEO of GE Vernova, says the company is betting on electrifying the world as a path to decarbonization while pivoting its R&D by partnering with customers like NVIDIA and nuclear startup Blue Energy on AI-factory and grid technologies. Since GE Vernova became an independent public company in April 2024, its stock is up more than 600%. The shift brings more technology development aimed first at AI factory needs, then expanding those learnings to the broader power grid, alongside a focus on attracting new talent and customers acquired after the spin.
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open Mixture-of-Experts model for always-on agent execution, alongside NeMo Switchyard, an open-source router for sending each agent step to the most suitable model. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is a 30B model with 3B active parameters and a 1M-token context window. The tooling enables cheaper, lower-latency agent workflows by routing tool calls and validations away from frontier models, with Switchyard reported to cut LangChain benchmark cost by 74% at about a 6-point accuracy drop.
NVIDIA announced partnerships with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to set up independent financing platforms for AI infrastructure buildouts. The platforms target mobilizing over $500 billion of third-party capital to fund AI factories over time. As a result, NVIDIA compute is positioned as an investable, revenue-producing infrastructure asset with redeployable capacity backed by long-term institutional financing decisions, rather than project-by-project chip purchases and data center builds.
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