Google reports first AI response from Project Suncatcher satellite
Google says testing whether TPUs can run workloads reliably in orbit is a step toward its planned twin interconnected satellites in 2027.
• Google says its Project Suncatcher satellite returned the first AI response from a data center class TPU in orbit.
• The team prompted an onboard Gemma 4 model to write a haiku and received the poem during a ground-station pass.
• Google plans thermal and radiation tests ahead of its 2027 milestone of twin interconnected satellites.
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