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Google runs AI model on space-based TPU, beams back haiku from orbit

Google achieved first successful AI inference from a solar-powered satellite in low Earth orbit, demonstrating viability of its space data center project.

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What to know

  • Google received its first AI response from a Tensor Processing Unit chip deployed in low Earth orbit, proving solar-powered space data centers can run functional AI workloads.
  • The test involved prompting Gemma 4, Google's open-source model, to generate a haiku about space, which was successfully transmitted back via ground station during an orbital pass over Svalbard.
  • This milestone advances Google's "moonshot" project to eventually deploy fully functional data centers in space to support AI and compute operations.

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Google runs AI model on space-based TPU, beams back haiku from orbit
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    Google runs first AI inference on space-based TPU chip

    Google researchers prompted the Gemma 4 open-source AI model running on a Tensor Processing Unit chip in a satellite to generate a haiku about being in space. During a pass over Svalbard, Norway, the satellite beamed back the poem: "Blue marble below / Data streams in silent grace / Starlight feeds my core."

    “Blue marble below Data streams in silent grace Starlight feeds my core.”
    — Gemma 4 (Google's space-based AI model)
    1. 1 outlet Google Scores Big Win in Quest to Put Data Centers in Space

      first by PCMag, 13d ago