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Google's ‘Project Suncatcher’ achieves first successful AI response from space

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Google has successfully run an artificial intelligence AI model on a satellite in orbit and received its first complete response back on Earth marking a key milestone in its Project Suncatcher initiative to explore the possibility of running AI computing infrastructure in space Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the development in a post on X describing it as a hello world milestone for Project Suncatcher He said the team had sent a command to the satellite booted up its Tensor Processing Unit TPU run a prompt and received the response back on Earth

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