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Google's orbital TPU returns its first AI answer from space
A Tensor Processing Unit aboard Google's Project Suncatcher prototype satellite ran the open Gemma 4 model and returned a haiku during a ground-station pass over Svalbard, Norway. Google calls it the first AI response from a data-centre-class TPU in orbit. The satellite launched on 1 October; thermal and radiation testing comes next, ahead of a 2027 milestone in which twin interconnected satellites would share inference work.