Google’s satellite AI server transmits its first response to Earth

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Google's AI chip-equipped satellite generated its first response from space after successfully booting its TPUs.

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•Google announced in a Friday blog post that it successfully booted the satellite's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs).
•The on-board Gemma 4 model followed a prompt to create a haiku about being in space.
•The generated haiku includes the lines 'Blue marble below Data streams in'.

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