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SpaceX signs $6.3B compute deal with Reflection AI for Colossus 2

Reflection AI, an open-source AI startup valued at $25 billion, has agreed to pay SpaceX $150 million per month starting July 2026 through 2029 for access to NVIDIA GB300 chips at Elon Musk's Colossus 2 data center. The total deal value reaches $6.3 billion if completed over its full three-year term.

This marks the third major customer SpaceX has landed for its Colossus infrastructure, following deals with Anthropic ($1.25B/month for Colossus 1) and Google ($920M/month). The agreement includes a 90-day cancellation clause after the first three months, giving either party flexibility to exit.

Reflection's focus on open-source AI models differs strategically from the closed systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. The deal reflects growing demand among governments and enterprises for models that offer transparency and control—especially after Anthropic's recent cutoff of Fable and Mythos models raised concerns about vendor lock-in.

For SpaceX, the compute business is transforming what was a cost center for Grok into a revenue engine. Architects and infrastructure teams now must account for SpaceX as a material player in GPU capacity allocation, alongside cloud providers and traditional AI infrastructure companies.

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