WORLDTECHSpaceX opens Grok partner network with Apollo and Nvidia among early members
SpaceX has set up a partner programme for businesses that use or build on its Grok AI, and Apollo and Nvidia are among more than 130 companies that signed up early. Bloomberg reported the launch, framing it as an effort to sell SpaceX's AI to businesses.
Who has joined the network
According to SpaceX, the Super Intelligence Partner Network counts the data firms Snowflake and Databricks and the consultancies Bain & Company and Booz Allen Hamilton among its members. Apollo, Nvidia and Bain are also named among the firms that joined early, which brings the total to more than 130 companies.
Galatiq, a firm that supplies forward deployed engineers, is among the members.
What partners receive
Partners are offered training and support, and their staff can enrol in SpaceX's course for forward deployed engineers, specialists who work inside customer companies. The aim is to help firms put Grok to practical use.
Context from SpaceX's AI business
The programme follows a quarter in which SpaceX's AI unit turned a profit, largely from renting out computing power. Days earlier, SpaceX said the unit had overtaken Starlink in revenue.
Grok Bot, the AI agent launched in August that carries out multi-step tasks rather than answering a single question, had more than 800,000 paying weekly users in October.
Open questions
- How many of the early members will go on to deploy Grok in production?