Google says its Project Suncatcher test put four TPUs into orbit in early October, and Sundar Pichai says one booted, ran a prompt and sent back a haiku.
A ‘hello world’ milestone for Project Suncatcher 🚀
After launching our prototype satellite a few weeks ago, we’ve now successfully sent a command up to orbit, booted up the TPU, ran the prompt, and received our first complete response back on earth - a haiku!
$GOOGL CEO Sundar Pichai says Project Suncatcher is launching on $SPCX Transporter-18 to test whether TPUs can survive and operate in space.
The prototype satellite was built with $PL as Google starts testing the hardware for orbital AI compute.
$GOOGL is launching its first Project Suncatcher AI satellite on Oct. 1 with four TPUs onboard to test running Gemini from orbit.
Google is already planning more launches in 2027 and studying 80+ satellite fleets that could eventually function as orbital AI data centers.