Google's AI satellite sends a very expensive haiku to Earth
The Suncatcher satellite, an experimental orbital AI datacenter, responded to a ground station prompt by writing a poem from the perspective of a TPU. This marks a 'Hello World' milestone for the onboard Gemma 4 model, though the cost of the orbital infrastructure makes the output extremely expensive.
Key points
- Suncatcher satellite used Gemma 4 to write a haiku
- First successful inference response from orbit
- Satellite is equipped with TPU trays
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