Gemma 4

Google announced that it received the first AI response from a TPU installed on a prototype satellite for its 'Project Suncatcher' space AI data center concept.

• •Google announced that it received the first AI response from a TPU installed on a prototype satellite.
• •A prompt was sent to the on-orbit open model 'Gemma 4', and the response was confirmed.
• •Google plans to proceed with operational evaluation tests of the TPU in space.

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

• •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'.

The first TPU operating in space is running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model to generate poetry.

• •The first TPU operating in space is now online.
• •The TPU is executing a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model.
• •The model is currently engaged in generating poetry.

An open-source desktop app called Hob has been released as an on-device alternative to cloud-based AI tools.

• •Hob is a free, MIT-licensed desktop app supporting Mac, Windows, and Linux.
• •It utilizes open-weight models like Gemma 4 and gpt-oss, keeping all chats and files locally.
• •Data remains on the system except for web searches and MCP connector connections.