Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal

Tom Brown, a former employee of Google, used his connections to the Republican party to broker a $1.25 billion per month deal between SpaceX and a company called Atrpotic, which specializes in large-scale AI computing. The deal will provide SpaceX with the computing power it needs to train its AI models. Atrpotic's technology is based on a type of AI chip called a tensor processing unit, or TPU, which is designed to accelerate AI computations. The TPU was originally developed by Google, and Brown was involved in its creation. The deal is a significant win for Atrpotic, which has been working to commercialize the TPU technology.