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Google’s Suncatcher satellite runs AI in orbit and sends a haiku home

Context: Google's prototype data centre satellite ran a Gemma 4 model in orbit and sent back a haiku, Google's Travis Beals wrote on Friday.

From The Next Web: Google’s prototype data centre satellite has run an AI model in orbit and sent its answer back to Earth. The onboard Gemma 4 model wrote a haiku about being in space, Travis Beals, a senior director at Google, wrote in a blog post on Friday.

Source
The Next Web (thenextweb.com)
Published
First seen here
Edition
Sunday, November 1, 2026, ranked 15
Status
A publication reported this; the company may not have confirmed it.
Why it’s here
Google's first AI inference run in orbit, on its prototype data centre satellite.
Topics
AI, Infrastructure
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