Breakthrough Listen and SETI Institute add agentic AI to Allen Telescope Array signal search
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Breakthrough Listen and the SETI Institute are using agentic AI at the Allen Telescope Array in Northern California, where agents can steer the instrument, correct incoming data and apply AI models to the data stream from a single natural language request.
The system handles 2.4 terabits per second on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs, with inference running on premises next to the instrument. The pipeline is built on NVIDIA Holoscan, DAQIRI, CyberEther and Nexus, according to NVIDIA's blog post.
NVIDIA says the pipeline has made the first real-time AI detection of a pulsar in the Crab Nebula, and the team is evaluating NVIDIA Nemotron. The report comes from NVIDIA's own blog and has not been independently verified.
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AIBreakthrough Listen and the SETI Institute are using agentic AI at the Allen Telescope Array, where agents steer the instrument and process data from a single natural language request. The system, built on NVIDIA Holoscan, DAQIRI, CyberEther and Nexus, handles 2.4 terabits per second on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs. The pipeline has achieved the first real-time AI detection of a pulsar in the Crab Nebula, and the team is evaluating NVIDIA Nemotron.
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