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Google's Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is online and communicating with Earth, successfully running the Gemma 4 AI model on an onboard TPU to write a haiku about space, though power limits restrict the chip to 20-minute bursts. News source: Google / https://techcrunch.com Google's first data center satellite is alive and writing poetry. The Project Suncatcher prototype, launched on October 1 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, has completed its commissioning phase and successfully run its first AI workload in orbit. Engineers sent a prompt to the satellite's pre-loaded Gemma 4 model, asking it to write a haiku about being in space. The response came back through a ground station in Svalbard, Norway: Blue marble belowData streams in silent graceStarlight feeds my core. "A 'hello world' milestone for Project Suncatcher," Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote on X. "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!" The Power Problem The satellite carries four Google Tensor Processing Units, but its solar panels generate onl...

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