Google’s satellite AI server transmits its first response to Earth
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 […]
Google's AI-equipped satellite, known as Project Suncatcher, has successfully transmitted its first response from space. The satellite generated a haiku about being in space, as reported by Google in a blog post on Friday. According to the company, the satellite's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) were successfully activated, enabling the onboard Gemma 4 model to follow a prompt and create the haiku: "Blue marble below, Data streams in silent grace, Starlight feeds my core. ✨".
The test was part of Project Suncatcher, an experimental initiative that aims to eventually put AI data centers in space. The satellite was launched into orbit earlier this month. Google stated that they will continue with further tests to evaluate the performance of TPUs under thermal stress and radiation exposure in orbit. They emphasized that verifying the reliability of TPUs executing workloads in space is a crucial step towards their next milestone, which involves launching twin interconnected satellites in 2027.
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