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Recent reporting, analysis and explainers from the space computing desk.
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Google says its Project Suncatcher prototype has run the Gemma 4 model on an onboard TPU and returned an AI-generated response to Earth. The company describes it as the first AI response from a data-centre-class TPU in orbit.
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Google says its Project Suncatcher prototype generated an AI response in orbit using a data-center-class TPU and the Gemma 4 model. The next tests will examine TPU performance under thermal stress and radiation exposure.
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Google Research has published a preprint outlining Project Suncatcher, a proposed network of solar-powered satellites carrying TPUs for machine-learning computing in orbit. Its early work includes a bench-scale optical-link demonstration, satellite-formation modelling and radiation testing of a TPU.