Google's Project Suncatcher satellite runs its first AI response from an orbital TPU
AIGoogle says its Project Suncatcher prototype satellite, launched October 1, produced its first AI response from a data center class TPU in orbit. During a ground-station pass, the onboard Gemma 4 model generated a haiku about space, downlinked as the satellite passed over Svalbard, Norway.
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The source reports a concrete orbital test of data-center TPUs running an onboard model, a checkable step toward AI compute in space.
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Original title: We’ve received our first response from the Project Suncatcher prototype satellite.