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Google says a data center grade TPU aboard its Project Suncatcher prototype satellite produced its first AI response in orbit: the preloaded Gemma 4 model wrote a haiku in response to a prompt from Earth. Engineers also tested telemetry tasks. Cooling and power constraints limit each TPU run to about 20 minutes.
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Google says it booted up the satellite’s TPUs in space, enabling its onboard Gemma 4 model to generate a haiku from a prompt. It also tested other space-themed limericks and telemetry prompts. The test is part of Project Suncatcher, an experimental effort that could eventually put AI data centers in space.
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Google says a data center grade TPU aboard its Project Suncatcher prototype satellite produced its first AI response in orbit: the preloaded Gemma 4 model wrote a haiku in response to a prompt from Earth. Engineers also tested telemetry tasks. Cooling and power constraints limit each TPU run to about 20 minutes.
Google says it booted up the satellite’s TPUs in space, enabling its onboard Gemma 4 model to generate a haiku from a prompt. It also tested other space-themed limericks and telemetry prompts. The test is part of Project Suncatcher, an experimental effort that could eventually put AI data centers in space.
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