Google's first data center satellite is online and writing poetry
The satellite’s onboard Gemma 4 model returned a haiku as Google begins testing how its chips handle thermal stress and radiation in space.
- On Friday, Google successfully booted up the Google Suncatcher satellite's Tensor Processing Units, allowing the on-board Gemma model to generate a space-themed haiku about orbital operations.
- Project Suncatcher launched earlier this month on a SpaceX Falcon rocket alongside more than 100 other spacecraft, with the prototype data center undergoing a three-week commissioning process before activation.
- Power demands limit the Google Tensor Processing Unit to twenty minutes of operation, complicating communications. Engineers now assess how the hardware performs under thermal stress and space Radiation, which can cause "bit flips" corrupting data.
- A spokesperson told TechCrunch the satellite is operating nominally. Google aims to demonstrate that AI chips can reliably execute large inference workloads in space, paving the way for future orbital networks.
- Verifying the hardware paves the way for twin interconnected satellites in 2027. Future scalability depends on the rapid reusability of Starship, the rocket central to Elon Musk's space vision.
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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 […]
The Gemma 4 model generates a haiku while orbiting the Earth and marks a breakthrough in Project Suncatcher, the initiative with which Google investigates The post Google receives a poem written by AI from space on its first experimental satellite appeared first on.
Google's satellite wrote a haiku in orbit, and the real test is cooling
Four Trillium TPU chips reached orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 October 1 with Planet Labs, and Google says the chips tested radiation-hard against a 67 MeV proton beam, though cooling in a vacuum remains unresolved ahead of a 2027 two-satellite mission.
Google announced a debut successful neuronet infestation deployed on the spacecraft. In the Suncatcher initiative, specialists sent a request for the Gemma 4 model running on the TPU profile chip on the satellite platform. IA was given the task of writing a traditional hockey on the universe, and the result was retransmitted to Earth. The launch of the machine took place on October 1st. Over the following weeks... The post AI first responded fro…
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