Google receives first Gemma response from orbit
Google’s Suncatcher project launched a satellite with TPU and Gemma, marking the first LLM response sent from space.
Google launched the first satellite with a TPU running the Gemma model as part of its Suncatcher project. Today the team received the first LLM response from space: a prompt was sent from Earth, processed on orbit, and returned as a poem.
Blue marble below Data streams in silent grace Starlight feeds my core. ✨
Sundar Pichai called it a “hello world” moment for the program to move data centers into space.
Earlier reports said Google is working with SpaceX and Planet: the upcoming Transporter-18 mission was set to send a prototype satellite with TPU to test the chips in real space.
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AnalysisIt shows that AI inference can run beyond ground data centers and points toward space-based computing.
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