Google's Project Suncatcher satellite runs Gemma 4 from orbit
Original title: Google’s satellite AI server transmits its first response to Earth
Onboard TPUs completed a space haiku prompt; Google next plans thermal and radiation tests and twin satellites in 2027.
Google said its Project Suncatcher satellite booted Tensor Processing Units and ran the onboard Gemma 4 model, which produced a haiku about being in space. The company also tried space-themed limericks and telemetry prompts. The satellite launched earlier this month as an experiment toward AI data centers in orbit. Google said further tests will check TPU behavior under thermal stress and radiation, ahead of twin interconnected satellites in 2027.
- Gemma 4 generated the haiku after the satellite's TPUs booted.
- Google also tried limericks and telemetry prompts in orbit.
- The next milestone is twin interconnected satellites in 2027.
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Google's AI chip-equipped satellite has generated its first response from space. In a blog post on Friday, Google says it successfully booted up the satellite's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), allowing the on-board Gemma 4 model to follow through on a prompt to create a haiku about being in space: Blue marble below Data streams in silent grace Starlight feeds my core.
By Emma Roth · theverge.com
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